Build a ring 93 million miles in radius - one Earth orbit– around the sun. “I myself have dreamed up a structure intermediate between Dyson spheres and planets. “The story itself borders on boring and tedious…not unlike the feelings Louis Wu has towards his own life at the beginning of the book.”Īnother thing that soured me about the book was the pretentious text on the rear cover of the book I own: This removes one of the trifectas of storytelling right out of the work: characters. I was completely apathetic to the characters…I didn’t care one way or another what happened to them. I never got the sense of “awe” I should have felt while reading about these characters traversing a small infinitesimal sliver of the Ringworld after their ship crashes. And the story itself borders on boring and tedious…not unlike the feelings Louis Wu has towards his own life at the beginning of the book. Descriptive passages are muddled and lacking. In this novel Niven possesses a complete lack of narrative storytelling. The “ringworld” is a world large enough to invoke a sense of adventure and a tapestry rich enough to paint innumerable tales.
Humanity tentatively probed interstellar space bey. I can only speculate that he won the awards based on the speculative concept.Ĭonceptually Ringworld introduces a great idea to the genre: a modifed Dyson Sphere The Sphere of the Triocracy is the human empire that was loosely established in 2221 CE when Nulldrive technology was first discovered and developed. I can’t conceive how he won based on storytelling. Ringworld won Hugo and Nebula awards in 1970. I use the world “seminal” because he’s managed to milk this brilliant idea into a quite boring 4 book series despite the effort put forth in this award winning classic. I recently finished Larry Niven’s seminal work after many years of procrastination (I’m good at it). And before Ringworld, there were…well… Dyson Spheres.
Before there was Halo, there was Ringworld by Larry Niven.
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