The party’s expedition, however, goes disastrously wrong when their ship crash-lands and its motley crew faces a daunting trek across thousands of miles of Ringworld territory. The kzin are one of the most savage life-forms known. Speaker-to-Animals, kzin-large, orange-furred, and carnivorous. This particular puppeteer, however, is insane. Nessus, puppeteer-a trembling coward from a species with an inbuilt survival pattern of nonviolence. Louis Wu, human-old and bored with having lived too fully for too many years, seeking an adventure, and all too capable of handling it. Curious about the immense structure, but frightened by the prospect of meeting the builders, they set about assembling a team to explore it: Pierson’s puppeteers-strange, three-legged, two-headed aliens-discovered this “Ringworld” in a hitherto unexplored part of the galaxy. Larry Niven's novel, Ringworld, is the winner of the 1970 Hugo Award for Best Novel, the 1970 Nebula Award for Best Novel, and the 1972 Ditmars, an Australian award for Best International Science Fiction. The artifact is a vast circular ribbon of matter, some 180 million miles across, with a sun at its center. Walls 1,000 miles high at each rim will let in the sun and prevent much air from escaping. Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novel, Ringworld remains a favorite among science fiction readers.
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