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Summary: Who's got the movie rights?
Review: "Ringworld" and "The Ringworld Engineers", taken together as one work, make the greatest script for an SF movie series that I've ever seen. Just think of the teaser.... "Imagine a candle with a baby blue Christmas ribbon...now increase the scale"..I wonder why nobody's made a movie out of this series? Perhaps now, with digital technology, some of the characters (Nessus, the Hindmost) and the artifacts (shadow squares, the Arch, the Fleet of Worlds) can be brought to life. IMHO, it's worth taking a shot at making the "impossible" book into a movie ("Dune" was at least an attempt at that - no one could have captured all of it). Mr. Niven deserves the recognition.
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Summary: This 2nd tale of RingWorld is just breathtaking!!
Review: For readers who are new to Nivens form of science
fiction I would recomend this series highly. As an
offshoot of another of his series "Tales of Known Space" it
succeeds in grasping the reader in its rich history of Alien life and lore as well as the fate of humanity.
This story, continued from "Ringworld", recounts the
further adventures of Louis Wu and his Kzin friend who are
once again employed by a radical Piersons Puppeteer to solve
the problems of the Ringworld. Various questions left un-
answered from the first book are finally answered in this
eagerly awaited sequel. By far this is one of the best works I have ever had the priviledge to read.
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Summary: This 2nd tale of RingWorld is just breathtaking!!
Review: For readers who are new to Nivens form of sciencefiction I would recomend this series highly. As anoffshoot of another of his series "Tales of Known Space" it succeeds in grasping the reader in its rich history of Alien life and lore as well as the fate of humanity. This story, continued from "Ringworld", recounts the further adventures of Louis Wu and his Kzin friend who are once again employed by a radical Piersons Puppeteer to solve the problems of the Ringworld. Various questions left un- answered from the first book are finally answered in this eagerly awaited sequel. By far this is one of the best works I have ever had the priviledge to read.
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Summary: Has answers, has conflict, but not as enjoyable as Ringworld
Review: Granted, I couldn't put it down, but that's just how I am when I want to know the answer to something. I was dissapointed at how short it was, and there is no sense of time. Events which are suposed to take a week or more seem to fly by in minutes. I noticed this lack of time in many places. It wasn't as sex-filled as some of the reviews say....I was actually expecting more sex after reading the reviews here. Although somewhat dissapointed by the book, I was satisfied to have answers to some of the questions left by the first book, but I think this book just opens up more questions. I still am womdering "What happens now?"
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Summary: Has answers, has conflict, but not as enjoyable as Ringworld
Review: Granted, I couldn't put it down, but that's just how I am when I want to know the answer to something. I was dissapointed at how short it was, and there is no sense of time. Events which are suposed to take a week or more seem to fly by in minutes. I noticed this lack of time in many places. It wasn't as sex-filled as some of the reviews say....I was actually expecting more sex after reading the reviews here. Although somewhat dissapointed by the book, I was satisfied to have answers to some of the questions left by the first book, but I think this book just opens up more questions. I still am womdering "What happens now?"
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Summary: A welcome return to Ringworld!
Review: I have rarely come across a sequel that continues a story as well as this. It's advisable to read "Ringworld" first, otherwise this won't make all that much sense. Once you've done that and want more, read this. You'll probably have a difficult time discerning between the two books afterwards, because they complement each other very well. The story revolves around Louis Wu and his alien friend (or foe?), the kzin formerly known as Speaker-To-Animals. The Puppeteers (an extremely paranoid alien species) manage to get the two on board a spaceship heading for a second rendezvous with the mysterious Ringworld, a huge habitable "circular ribbon in space". I won't disclose more. Just read the thing. It's worth it.
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Summary: A very dissapointing sequel.
Review: I really enjoyed Ringworld, in fact it was one of my favorite books of all time, but I found this a poor sequel. True, it does explain some of the mysteries of the first, but it never does it in a way that excites the imagination or makes you want to keep reading. The plot was dull and uneventful and the ending left a lot to be desired. Even the interactions between the characters seemed predictable and cliched
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Summary: Very Entertaining
Review: I've never been that big of a fan of Larry Niven, but I have to give this novel very high marks. I found it absorbing from beginning to end. Louis Wu and the eight-foot-tall Kzin Chmeee find themselves kidnapped by a puppeteer and taken to the Ringworld, which, it turns out, has become unstable and is going to fall into its sun. The puppeteer is mostly interested in finding a matter transformer, while Louis wants to save the Ringworld. Of course, there are all kinds of adventures, which is to be expected on something as big as the Ringworld. Niven is great at the hard science of how the Ringworld works. Take a look; you'll like the book.
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Summary: The Best of the Ringworld series in the Second Millenium!
Review: I've read and re-read the first two Ringworld books over and over again since the early seventies, no other book could I envision more vividly. And it is one of the few books that still give me that edge-of-the-seat feeling. Larry Niven has an interesting vehicle and I hope to continue to read of the society(s) of the Ringworld
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Summary: Good.
Review: If my opinion means anything to you (ok, ok, you got me already), I say read this first, then go back and read Ringworld. I did that (no choice -- one day it was the only book around), and thought it was more interesting than the first [Ringworld]. I read it a second time and it lacked something, probably that Niven repeats himself between the 2. I still think this is the better of the 3 (The Ringworld Throne was the last), but only for it was the first time I read about "a blue christmas ribbon laid out around a candle.." blah blah blah.. if you've read 'em, you know what I mean ;-) [Still gets 5 stars tho]
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