5/10/2023 0 Comments The ringworld throneI wanted to like this book, but I just could not warm to it. When the action finally started it was good, but hardly worth the wait. It plods along until the last few chapters when everything starts to happen. The story of the vampire hunters served no purpose except to introduce a few incidental characters. Much of the first half of the book was a waste of time. I read this book partly in the hope of recapturing some of that old Niven magic, but no matter how much I wanted it, it was not there. A group of Protectors - the original alien builders of the ring - are engaged in a war that could result in the destruction of everything. Something strange is happening on the edge of the ring. Then Wu is contacted by the alien puppeteer, the Hindmost. A coalition of hominid subspecies have banded together to rid the ring of a plague of vampires. In the previous novel, The Ringworld Engineers, Louis Wu and his crew of aliens saved Ringworld from destruction, leaving them stranded on the ring with little hope of rescue.įourteen years later, Louis Wu is living the life of an itinerant teacher. Terraform the inside and you have an artefact with a habitable surface 3 million times that of Earth. Imagine a strip of metal 997,000 miles wide and 597,000 miles long, loop it around a handy star. Ringworld Throne - Larry Niven Fiction Reviews
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