Ringworld Throne

Larry Niven

Random House Digital, Inc., Mar 30, 1997 - Fiction - 368 pages

Come back to the Ringworld . . . the most astonishing feat of engineering ever encountered.  A place of untold technological wonders, home to a myriad humanoid races, and world of some of the most beloved science fiction stories ever written!

The human, Louis Wu; the puppeteer known as the Hindmost; Acolyte, son of the Kzin called Chmeee . . . legendary beings brought together once again in the defense of the Ringworld. Something is going on with the Protectors. Incoming spacecraft are being destroyed before they can reach the Ringworld.  Vampires are massing. And the Ghouls have their own agenda--if anyone dares approach them to learn.

Each race on the Ringworld has always had its own Protector. Now it looks as if the Ringworld itself needs a Protector. But who will sit on the Ringworld Throne?

"Niven's work has been an intriguing and consistent universe, and this book is the keystone of the arch. . . . [His] technique is wonderfully polished, his characters and their situations are nicely drawn . . . wraps up (maybe) a corner of a very interesting universe."
--San Diego Union-Tribune

What people are saying

Review: The Ringworld Throne (Ringworld #3)

User Review  - Thomson Kneeland - Goodreads

Niven created an interesting landscape and ideas for the 1970 Ringworld. Louis Wu returns in The Ringworld Throne, cast amidst a landscape of boring characters with one dimensional personalities. The ...

Review: The Ringworld Throne (Ringworld #3)

User Review  - Katherine - Goodreads

I was excited to find this book, because I hoped Niven had something new to say about the Ringworld. Well, he didn't. In fact, I almost gave up after the first hundred pages or so, because I found it ...

Contents

• CHAPTER: 2
• HAPTER: 8
• HAPTER: 15
• SNWRUNNERS PASS: 89
• DANCING AS FAST AS I CAN: 202
• I: 267
• DEFAULT OPTION: 279
• LOVECRAFT: 297
• COLLIER: 318
• 30: 328
• 201: 338
• RINGWORLD PARAMETERS: 352

About the author

Larry Niven was born in 1938 in Los Angeles, California. In 1956, he entered the California Institute of Technology, only to flunk out a year and a half later after discovering a bookstore jammed with used science-fiction magazines. He graduated with a B.A. in mathematics (minor in psychology) from Washburn University, Kansas, in 1962, and completed one year of graduate work before he dropped out to write. His first published story, "The Coldest Place," appeared in the December 1964 issue of Worlds of If. He won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1966 for "Neutron Star" and in 1974 for "The Hole Man." The 1975 Hugo Award for Best Novelette was given to The Borderland of Sol. His novel Ringworld won the 1970 Hugo Award for Best Novel, the 1970 Nebula Award for Best Novel, and the 1972 Ditmar, an Australian award for Best International Science Fiction.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Ringworld Throne; A Del Rey book
• Author: Larry Niven
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc., 1997
• ISBN: 0345412966, 9780345412966
• Length: 368 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Science Fiction / Action & Adventure; Fiction / Science Fiction / General; Fiction / Science Fiction / Hard Science Fiction