Ringworld: Encyclopedia II - Ringworld - Sequels and adaptations

Ringworld - Sequels and adaptations

The novel Ringworld has been followed by three sequels, The Ringworld Engineers (1980), The Ringworld Throne (1996), and Ringworld's Children (2004).

In the 1980s a role-playing game based on this setting was produced by Chaosium named RingworldRPG.

Tsunami Games released two adventure games based on Ringworld, "Ringworld: Revenge of the Patriarch" in 1992 and "Return to Ringworld" in 1994.

In 2004, the Sci Fi Channel reported that it was developing a Ringworld miniseries [1]. Larry Niven reported in 2001 that a movie deal had been signed and was in the early planning stages, with rumors circulating that James Cameron might direct [2]. There have also been many abortive attempts to adapt the novel to the screen.

The plot of the first-person shooter Halo for the Microsoft Xbox also takes place on a ringworld-like structure. Given its dimensions (10,000 kilometers in diameter) it is more like Banks' Culture Orbitals than Niven's behemoth. Fans of the Halo series point more toward the sense of wonder generated by Niven's Ringworld, where the player is indeed a rather jaded human sent on a wild mission through the stars and involves a crash landing. The "Arch" Niven describes as inhabitants view the rest of the ring stretching into space is also prominently featured in Halo, and rather vividly brought to life.

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