For one thing it pretty short and is a fairly easy read. Ringworld is one of the first scifi books I ever read I thought it was amazing the first time I read it. Not as a good when I reread it as an adult but I still love the concepts in the book even if the characters are a little lacking in depth.
The only one of the sequels I have read was Ringworld Engineers and I remember liking it a lot when I first read it 30 or so years ago. I prefer to read Niven when he writes with Pournelle and I loved The Mote In God's Eye books. I also really liked Nivens Integral Tree book and it probably better written the Ringworld. Legacy of Heorot is also worth reading.
Of course who wouldn't love a writer who used to advice Ronald Reagan
The only one of the sequels I have read was Ringworld Engineers and I remember liking it a lot when I first read it 30 or so years ago. I prefer to read Niven when he writes with Pournelle and I loved The Mote In God's Eye books. I also really liked Nivens Integral Tree book and it probably better written the Ringworld. Legacy of Heorot is also worth reading.
Of course who wouldn't love a writer who used to advice Ronald Reagan
So I've never tried The Mote in God's Eye.
I'm not sure. Did Reagan do anything worth remembering? (I'm Indian, I usually don't need to know this stuff.
)Reagan is mostly worth remembering as a cautionary tale, I believe.
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Ringworld by Larry Niven
- 22/02/2010 06:19:50 PM
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Re: The flip side to my review, as articulated on SFreviews.net:
- 22/02/2010 06:21:05 PM
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RIngworld is a classic that any real fan of scfi should read
- 23/02/2010 05:09:07 AM
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Re: I'm very leery of co-written novels.
- 23/02/2010 10:35:06 AM
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Gaiman/Pratchett managed well...
- 23/02/2010 11:34:05 AM
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Other gems from the 70s and early 80s:
- 12/03/2010 03:04:05 PM
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Re: The Chanur series is wonderful. I will definitely look into more Cherryh. *NM*
- 13/03/2010 09:27:48 AM
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