Ringworld's Children

Larry Niven

Macmillan, Apr 1, 2007 - Fiction - 288 pages

Welcome to a world like no other.

The Ringworld: a landmark engineering achievement, a flat band 3 million times the surface area of Earth, encircling a distant star. Home to trillions of inhabitants, not all of which are human, and host to amazing technological wonders, the Ringworld is unique in all of the universe.

Explorere Louis Wu, an Earth-born human who was part of the first expedition to Ringworld, becomes enmeshed in interplanetary and interspecies intrigue as war, and a powerful new weapon, threaten to tear the Ringworld apart forever. Now, the future of Ringworld lies in the actions of its children: Tunesmith, the Ghould protector; Acolyte, the exiled son of Speaker-to-Animals, and Wembleth, a strange Ringworld native with a mysterious past. All must play a dangerous in order to save Ringworld's population, and the stability of Ringworld itself.

Blending awe-inspiring science with non-stop action and fun, Ringworld's Children, the fourth installment of the multiple award-winning saga, is the perfect introduction for readers new to this New York Times bestselling series, and long-time fans of Larry Niven's Ringworld.



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Contents

• PREFACE: 9
• RINGWORLD PARAMETERS: 15
• CAST OF CHARACTERS: 17
• GLOSSARY: 19
• CHAPTER 1 Louis Wu: 27
• CHAPTER 2 The Hindmost: 39
• CHAPTER 3 Recruiting: 47
• CHAPTER 4 Acolyte: 55
• CHAPTER 5 Hanuman: 64
• CHAPTER 6 The Blind Spot: 69
• CHAPTER 7 End Run: 83
• CHAPTER 8 Try an Antimatter Bomb: 90
• CHAPTER 9 View from a Height: 107
• CHAPTER 10 A Tale to Tell: 113
• CHAPTER 11 The Wounded Land: 125
• CHAPTER 12 The Giraffe People: 146
• CHAPTER 13 Gray Nurse: 156
• CHAPTER 14 The Spill Mountain People: 171
• CHAPTER 15 Proserpina: 181
• CHAPTER 16 Meeting of Minds: 206
• CHAPTER 17 The Penultimates Citadel: 218
• CHAPTER 18 The Ringworld Floor: 233
• CHAPTER 19 Wakening: 240
• CHAPTER 20 Telling a Tale: 257
• CHAPTER 21 In Flight: 270
• CHAPTER 22 Breeder: 283

About the author

Larry Niven is the multiple Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of the Ringworld series, along with many other science fiction masterpieces. His Beowulf's Children, co-authored with Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes was a New York Times bestseller. He lives in Chatsworth, California.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Ringworld's Children
• Author: Larry Niven
• Publisher: Macmillan, 2007
• ISBN: 1429914068, 9781429914062
• Length: 288 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Science Fiction / Alien Contact; Fiction / Science Fiction / Hard Science Fiction; Fiction / Science Fiction / Space Exploration; Fiction / Science Fiction / Space Opera