Ringworld

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Summary: Ringworld WOW! I'm filled with awe.
Review: The Ringworld is the best scifi story I've ever read (and I,ve read quite a lot). This book was so good that I just had to reread all my Known Space stories again. Man Kzinti Wars, Neutron Star, Protector and so on. I reread it again before reading Ringworld Throne. It got me this time around too. This must have been my fifth time around reading this book. It does grow on me! Good work Larry Niven. It must be one of the best scifi books ever written

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Summary: this is a great book.
Review: Normally after reading a book once I don't bother with it again - However I found myself re-reading this book several times. Niven comes out with some incredible concepts not the least of which is ringworld ( the artificial ring which circles a sun) and of course there is the concept of psychic luck which is unlucky for anyone who come in the way of Teela. All in all a fascinating book and a must read for all science fiction fans.

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Summary: This novel is incredible.
Review: I'm not usually prone to hyperbole, but this is in fact the single best work of fiction of any kind that I have ever read. The sequel is comparably fine

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Summary: Niven's Imagination In Ringworld Isn't Human!
Review: Ringworld. Niven's solution to one heck of a population problem for a species that was so advanced it was scary. Thousand-year old technology built this masterpiece perfect...or did it. That is what Louis Wu: 200 year old space-worn traveler, Teela Brown: 20 year old walking rabbit's foot, Nessus: A two headed, three footed Pierson's Puppetter whose species likes playing God, and Speaker: an 8' tall Kzin with orange fur, and a 'sharp' smile. They are drawn together by fate to gather more data about Ringworld, a ring built around a star, billions of times Earth's surface area, to collect data and determine whether it is habital or just a worthless space artifact. The puppetter's need the world, due to a core explosion's radioactive wave, which will reach them in a hundred years (destroying everything). As they explore it they discover that something went terribly wrong here once, something they weren't supposed to find out about. Do they, and with their ship wrecked by an old Ringworld defense system, will they ever leave to tell others the secrets of Ringworld. Niven answers these questions in his masterpiece: Ringworld

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Summary: One of the science fiction classics of the seventies.
Review: One of the science fiction classics of the seventies. Niven fuses hard science, speculative imagination, and (his strong point) Phun-Nee Ay-Lee-Yunz into a great yarn over a HUGE backdrop.

Also, _pace_ a previous reviewer, Larry is *not* dead. He has given me verbal permission to mention this here.

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Summary: Mindboggling.
Review: It is a truly mindboggling experience to read the book and suddenly realize just HOW big the Ringworld is. The engineering effort is almost too great for the earthbound human's mind to grasp. The fact that is not too technical makes it readable almost anybody, though some knowledge of physics and astronomy makes it even more enjoyable. A very good book indeed, though the cast of charachters and their relations are nowhere near as interesting as the setting of the plot.

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Summary: The absoloute BEST!!
Review: Really, this is one of my favorite books. It is one that I have read probably fifteen or more times. A vast mind opening opus of the late great Grand Master of Science Fiction. Larry, we all miss you..

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Summary: A must for all hardcore SF fans
Review: A great book that you can read over and over again and find it new and exciting each time. Niven introduces us to a host of characters each unique with their own vews, culture, and way of life. As for Ringworld itself, it is a masterpeice of Niven's imagination and his skill of weaving a world so real, it's as if he was actually there. A must for all SF fans, and for those just discovering the wonders of this genre, a great introduction to the world of hard-core science fiction.

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Summary: SPECTACULAR
Review: This book is incredible. It keeps you in your seat staying up to all hours of the night just to finish your chapter. A masterpiece of Niven.

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Summary: I, too, found "Ringworld" a truly ingenious series
Review: Just the pure scientific thought that went behind the so-called construction of this massive ring about a lesser-magnitude star is absolutely incredible, even without the storyline and characters! I definitely place this series up there with many other sci-fi works, both old and new: "Stranger in a Strange Land", "Puppet Masters", "Foundation", "2001", "2010", "Rendezvous with Rama", all the "Star Trek" and "Star Wars" books, as well as books as new to the genre as "Advent of the Corps" and others.