They crash land into the ringworld near a huge mountain. Wu and the others travel to the ringworld where their ship is disabled by the world’s automated meteor defense system. Night is created by an inner ring of shadow squares that are connected by thin wire. The ringworld’s inner surface is habitable, providing the area of three million Earths to explore. The ring rotates which produces gravity at around Earth normal. This is an artificial ring of around one million miles wide which encircles a star at around the distance of Earth’s orbit around our Sun. There the crew learns that they are on a mission to explore a ringworld. Their first stop on the journey is on the Puppeteer homeworld. The other two crewmembers are an alien known as a Kzin named Speaker-to-Animals (Speaker) and a young human woman named Teela Brown. All this changes when an alien known as a Pierson’s Puppeteer named Nessus offers him one of three positions on an exploration voyage beyond human known space. Although in good physical condition due to the science of the day, he is bored with life. when Louis Gridley Wu celebrates his 200th birthday by traveling across the Earth to the West to extend his birthday by hours. The story of Ringworld opens on planet Earth near 3000 A.D. Niven is a full-time writer of novels, movies and television episodes going back to the 1960s and still producing new work today. He is married to Marilyn Wisowaty, and they make their home in the Los Angeles area. He makes his home in Los Angeles and is a full-time writer of novels, movies and television series. He did a year of graduate work at the University of California at Los Angeles. Larry Niven is a graduate of Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas where he gained an Bachelor of Arts in mathematics.

Winner of Nebula Award 1970, Hugo and Locus Award 1971

Ringworld 1970