Ringworld
1970 • 288 pages

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The artefact is a circular ribbon of matter six hundred million miles long and ninety million miles in radius. Pierson's puppeteers, the aliens who discovered it, are understandably wary of encountering the builders of such an immense structure and have assembled a team of two humans, a mad puppeteer and a kzin, a huge cat-like alien, to explore it. But a crash landing on the vast edifice forces the crew on a desperate and dangerous trek across the Ringworld.

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5 primary books

#1 in Ringworld

Ringworld is a 5-book series with 5 primary works first released in 1970 with contributions by Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner.

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Ringworld
#2
The Ringworld Engineers
#3
The Ringworld Throne
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Ringworld's Children
#5
Fate of Worlds

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1 primary book44 released books

#10 in Known Space

Known Space is a 44-book series with 1 primary work first released in 1965 with contributions by Larry Niven, Dean Ing, and Jerry Pournelle.

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