false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170563308m/61181.jpg 61181 20 It's been twenty years since the quixotic and worldsweary Louis Wu discovered the Ringworld. Now he and Speaker-To-Animals are going back, captives of the Hindmost, a deposed puppeteer leader. With Louis' help, the Hindmost intends to regain his status by bringing back such extraordinary treasures from the Ringworld that his fellow puppeteers will have to be impressed. But when they arrive, Louis discovers that the Ringworld is no longer stable ...and will destroy itself within months. To survive he must locate the control center of the legendary engineers who built the planet. <P>"A remarkably seamless continuation of the first book." (Publishers Weekly) 900675 1979 The Ringworld Engineers (Ringworld series, Book 2) total:1608|5:243|4:589|3:617|2:145|1:14| 1608 5726 2029 65 5 1 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri May 02 14:52:13 -0700 2008 Fri May 02 14:56:59 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Mar 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Feb 24 13:24:32 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 11 10:37:06 -0700 2009 Ringworld. The story is more compelling (you begin to care about what happens to the characters by the end) and the aliens seem a bit more fleshed out, though we do see less of the puppeteer dynamic. My biggest complaint is that the falling act...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jan 17 08:57:32 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 17 09:00:52 -0800 2009 ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1986 Wed Jan 07 10:47:33 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 22:27:12 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Fri Nov 14 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 07 19:30:44 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 17 02:52:35 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Feb 28 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 19:30:47 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 19:33:32 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jul 18 16:02:26 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 16:07:01 -0700 2009
Ringworld is what happens when you let people who love engineering run wild, it is a colossal structure in space, a manufactured corona with planet-sized shields forming a ring. Each of...more...]]> 2 1 false false Tue Jul 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 15 05:52:46 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 15 06:03:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 08 08:30:40 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 08 08:32:08 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sun Jul 12 10:39:57 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 10:42:35 -0700 2009 It's a vivid portrait of a world like no other.]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jan 07 02:50:58 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 02:51:04 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 09:07:27 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 09:09:39 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sun Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Fri Mar 27 09:06:27 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 27 09:06:27 -0700 2009 1 2 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1981 Sat Dec 20 12:28:48 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 08:11:34 -0800 2008 A hugely disappointing sequel to the excellent Ringworld. Niven lost his mojo somewhere around here. Apparently it doesn't just happen to Austin Powers.
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You get a better idea for the scale of the Ringworld in this book. There are scale maps of Earth and ...more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1986 Fri Aug 14 21:47:51 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 19:32:45 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Wed Apr 22 14:10:15 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 22 14:11:31 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Fri Dec 12 10:45:30 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 19 02:31:09 -0800 2008 1 0 false false Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Fri Jul 17 06:38:53 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 06:38:53 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=61181