Ringworld's Children

Ringworld's Children
by Larry Niven

Ringworld's Children
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Author: Larry Niven
Edition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-04-01
ISBN: 0765341026
Number of pages: 284
Publisher: Tor Books

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Book Review: Can Louis Wu survive yet again?
Summary: 5 Stars

The farther we get from Larry Niven's original Ringworld book, the more the central characters evolve and change, just as the Ringworld itself changes. Not only do we learn more about the nature of the Ringworld itself and how the interference of many protagonists has changed (and almost destroyed) it, but we learn how the natives have changed as well. For me, this is the essence of science fiction, and it's a pleasure to watch a master at his craft.

Nivin's writing, too, has changed over the last 35 years, which is hardly surprising, and his readers' tastes have undoubtedly changed, too. Larry has other, newer things to say today, and they're worth reading. You need not have read the previous three books, but might be a good idea; the Ringworld books tell a complex story, and if it's been a while since you've read them, it certainly wouldn't hurt to do a bit of review.

Larry updates his slant on technology, but he does it in a way that weaves it into the previous books. This may jar some readers, but it has, after all, been 35 years.

Recommended.

Summary of Ringworld's Children

Welcome to a world like no other.

The Ringworld: a landmark engineering achievement, a flat band 3 million times the surface area of Earth, encircling a distant star. Home to trillions of inhabitants, not all of which are human, and host to amazing technological wonders, the Ringworld is unique in all of the universe.

Explorere Louis Wu, an Earth-born human who was part of the first expedition to Ringworld, becomes enmeshed in interplanetary and interspecies intrigue as war, and a powerful new weapon, threaten to tear the Ringworld apart forever. Now, the future of Ringworld lies in the actions of its children: Tunesmith, the Ghould protector; Acolyte, the exiled son of Speaker-to-Animals, and Wembleth, a strange Ringworld native with a mysterious past. All must play a dangerous in order to save Ringworld's population, and the stability of Ringworld itself.

Blending awe-inspiring science with non-stop action and fun, Ringworld's Children, the fourth installment of the multiple award-winning saga, is the perfect introduction for readers new to this New York Times bestselling series, and long-time fans of Larry Niven's Ringworld.

Larry Niven may be America's greatest living hard-SF writer. Much of his SF belongs to his famous future history, the Tales of Known Space. His preeminent creation is the Ringworld: an immense, artificial, ring-shaped planet that circles a Known Space star. Possibly SF's greatest feat of world-building, the Ringworld is featured in four novels: the Hugo and Nebula Award winner Ringworld (1970); The Ringworld Engineers (1980); The Ringworld Throne (1996); and Ringworld's Children (2004).

Ringworld's Children returns series protagonist Louis Wu to the titular world. Louis and his friend The Hindmost, an alien of the Pierson's puppeteer race, are prisoners of the Ghoul protector Tunesmith, a Ringworld native, who is deliberately provoking the warships that surround his world. All the star-faring races of Known Space have sent warships to the Ringworld, and they are already at the brink of war. If fighting breaks out, the near-indestructible Ringworld will be destroyed: dissolved by antimatter weapons.

The Ringworld series is so complex and ambitious that Ringworld's Children opens with a glossary and a cast of characters, inclusions that even many Known Space fans will need. Newcomers to Niven's artificial planet should start with Ringworld. --Cynthia Ward

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