ringworld

• “Brown’s "The Farewell Party" was one of the highlights of the book, so when his novel Helix was published recently, containing one of the most wondrous sf big concepts since Robert Reed’s "great ship" or even Larry Niven’s "ringworld," how could I resist it?”

  Archive 2007-08-01

• “Plot Summary: In the year 2855, four adventurers (two humans and two aliens) explore a mysterious “ringworld”: an enormous, artificial, ring-shaped structure that surrounds a star.”

  Ten Science Fiction Books That Should Be Movies | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News

• “I kind of wish I'd been the guy to think up the idea of a giant ringworld, like Larry Niven, because if that was the case I'd been on the phone with every press outlet I could find saying 'hey, they ripped off my really cool idea.”

  MIND MELD: The Literature Of Ideas

• “From the descriptions we know we are on an alien world, even though the geometry of it is a bit confusing at first since descriptions seemingly alternate between ringworld and discworld.”

  REVIEW: The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, Volume 2 edited by George Mann

• “Ma'saaq Orbital, the setting for Look To Windward, is a Culture ringworld, and the population have expanded around the ring to find the space to explore their imaginative and eccentric Culture lifestyles.”

  Lonely Planets

• “The sheer scale of the ringworld will keep people watching.”

  From Page to Screen « It Doesn't Have To Be Right…

• “The puppeteers do not know who built the ringworld, and want Louis and the others to investigate it.”

  2009 Reading Challenge #1 – Ringworld, Larry Niven « It Doesn't Have To Be Right…

• “Niven also manages to create a human but slightly off-kilter civilisation-in-ruins on the ringworld, although the name of one of its city, Zignamuclickclick, generates a wince.”

  2009 Reading Challenge #1 – Ringworld, Larry Niven « It Doesn't Have To Be Right…

• “A ringworld – a single band of material approximately one million miles in width and 600 million miles in circumference, orbiting one AU from its primary, and comprising the surface area of three million Earths.”

  2009 Reading Challenge #1 – Ringworld, Larry Niven « It Doesn't Have To Be Right…

• “In fact, according to the cover art of Juggler of Worlds on fantasticfiction.co.uk, the book is set “200 years before the discovery of ringworld”.”

  2009 Reading Challenge #1 – Ringworld, Larry Niven « It Doesn't Have To Be Right…

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