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Ringworld - The story

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Ringworld - The story: Encyclopedia II - Ringworld - The story

In the year 2850, four explorers (two humans and two aliens) are chosen to explore a mysterious "ringworld", an enormous, artificial, ring-shaped structure that surrounds a star. The story is set in an extremely technologically advanced universe, where instant teleportation and indestructible spacecraft hulls are a reality. The protagonist Louis Wu is a retired adventurer who has just celebrated his 200th birthday. Despite his age, he is in near peak physical condition due to advanced medical technology and boosterspice. He spends his birthday hopping ahead of the dateline from party to party across Earth, but secretly ...

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Ringworld - The story: Encyclopedia II - Ringworld - Ringworld engineering

The "Ringworld" is an artificial ring about one million miles wide and approximately the diameter of Earth's orbit (which makes it about 600 million miles in circumference), centered about a star, and rotating to provide an Earthlike artificial gravity, with a habitable flat inner surface equivalent in area to approximately three million Earth-sized planets. Walls 1000 miles tall along the edges keep in the atmosphere. The Ringworld could be regarded as a thin slice of a Dyson sphere, with which it shares a number of characteristics. Niven himself thinks of the Ringworld as "an in ...

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Ringworld - The story: Encyclopedia II - 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 repo ...

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Ringworld - The story: Encyclopedia II - Ringworld - Concepts

Niven includes a number of alien species and entertaining concepts from his other Known Space stories including: the Puppeteer's General Products hulls, which are impervious to nearly anything except light and gravity and cannot be destroyed by anything except antimatter. the Slaver stasis field, which causes time in an area to stand still; since time is nearly stopped, no harm can come to objects in stasis. the idea that luck is a genetic trait that can be favored by selective breeding. the tasp, a de ...

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