by Larry Niven (Author)
Pierson's puppeteers, strange, three-legged, two-headed aliens, have discovered an immense structure in a hitherto unexplored part of the universe. Frightened of meeting the builders of such a structure, the puppeteers set about assembling a team consisting of two humans, a puppeteer and a kzin, an alien not unlike an eight-foot-tall, red-furred cat, to explore it. The artefact is a vast circular ribbon of matter, some 180 million miles across, with a sun at its centre - the Ringworld. But the expedition goes disastrously wrong when the ship crashlands and its motley crew faces a trek across thousands of miles of the Ringworld's surface.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Gateway
Published: 09 Jun 2005
ISBN 10: 0575077026
ISBN 13: 9780575077027
Prizes: Winner of SFWA Nebula Award Novel Category 1971.