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“Larry Niven’s 1970 Hugo Award winner, Ringworld, is arguably one of the most influential science fiction novels of the past fifty years…It’s clear that Ringworld hasn’t just become a cultural staple because it’s a good idea: its inspirational power comes from Niven’s success in bringing it to life. The sense of scale and wonder is joyful. I challenge you to read it without feeling awestruck.”
Guardian (London)
Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novel, Ringworld remains a favorite among science fiction readers.
The artifact is a vast circular ribbon of matter, some 180 million miles across, with a sun at its center. Pierson’s puppeteers—strange, three-legged, two-headed aliens—discovered this “Ringworld” in a hitherto unexplored part of the galaxy. Curious about the immense structure, but frightened by the prospect of meeting the builders, they set about assembling a team to explore it:
Louis Wu, human—old and bored with having lived too fully for too many years, seeking an adventure, and all too capable of handling it.
Nessus, puppeteer—a trembling coward from a species with an inbuilt survival pattern of nonviolence. This particular puppeteer, however, is insane.
Speaker-to-Animals, kzin—large, orange-furred, and carnivorous. The kzin are one of the most savage life-forms known.
The party’s expedition, however, goes disastrously wrong when their ship crash-lands and its motley crew faces a daunting trek across thousands of miles of Ringworld territory.
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A must for fans of Larry Niven's fine sci-fi series. Grover Gardner's award-winning voice tells an engaging story of art, technology and imagination. Good for when you want to escape.
By far the best Narrator in the Audiobook Business, if you are a Si-Fi audiobook fan you'll love Grover's voice. The story telling here is just out of this world. Pun intended. I read the book when I was 16 and just listen to this recently, what a ride!
I remember a few of my friends recommending and referring to this book a great deal while I was growing up. As I did not like reading much, and did not know much about audiobooks at the time, I never really gave much consideration to the series. When I found out that Downpour/Blackstone Audio carried this title, this became my first real experience to the series, as well as audiobooks. I am now hooked. The book was written very well and narrated by one of the best readers in the industry, Grover Gardner. I would recommend this title and series to any scifi buff.
What a great book! I was hooked after the first couple pages, which seems to happen less and less these days. Being a huge sci-fi fan, I can be extremely skeptical, but was pleased at how rich the characters are, and how close I felt to them through the story. Grover did a great job narrating, bringing that amazing sense of patience and realism needed to bring it all to life.
I really enjoyed this book. While I agree that this is fine piece of science fiction literature, there were parts that were a little slow and the ending is abrupt. But at its core, Ringworld is a real treat of science fiction. The audiobook is very well read and the characters come alive. Would definitely recommend.
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