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Hugo Award Winner, Fiction, science fiction, general, Ringworld (imaginary place), fiction, Fiction
The ' (1970–2004), by science fiction author Larry Niven, is a part of his Known Space set of stories. Its backdrop is the Ringworld, a giant artifact 600 million miles in circumference around a sun.
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Epic, cool, richly built and plot-driven.
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On Open Library, 145 have read it and 268 want to.
“In the nighttime heart of Beirut, in one of a row of general-address transfer booths, Louis Wu flicked into reality.”
**Laurence van Cott Niven** — known as *Larry Niven* — is an American science fiction writer. His best-known work is Ringworld (1970), which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. The Science Fiction Writers of America named him the 2015 recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award. His work is primarily hard science fiction, using big science concepts and theoretical physics. It also often includes elements of detective fiction and adventure stories. His fantasy includes the series The Magic Goes Away, rational fantasy dealing with magic as a non-renewable resource. Niven was born in Los Angeles. He briefly attended the California Institute of Technology and graduated
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“Is the world more interesting than the story?”
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“Is this Larry Niven's best work?”
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