With louis help, the hindmost intends to regain his status by bringing back. The ringworld throne larry niven read online free books. Learn more about the ringworld engineers in the listening books digital collection. It is the first sequel to nivens ringworld and was nominated for both the. Possibly sfs greatest feat of worldbuilding, the ringworld is featured in four novels. Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet or mobile phone. In 1956, he entered the california institute of technology, only to flunk out a year and a half later after discovering a bookstore jammed with used sciencefiction magazines. Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds. Is it just me or is ringworld by larry niven hard to read. It must therefore be read after the four ringworld titles and after the four fleet of worlds titles. Its backdrop is the ringworld, a giant artifact 600 million miles in circumference around a star. The artefact is a circular ribbon of matter six hundred million miles long and ninety million miles in radius. It is a shortening from the more literal the one who leads from behind. One bookseller found that twice as many readers tried another niven book if they started with neutron star instead of ringworld.
Its got a scope larger than the first book, a faster pace, better science, more interesting and well developed characters, even louis is given a significant boost of nuance, but for all that it doesnt lose the aweinspiring scope of the original or the eversoslightly tongueincheek aspects that creep into nivens work from time to. If you liked ring world, another series 2 you might enjoy is the integral trees and its sequel the smoke ring. The ringworld throne is a novel by larry niven, first published in 1996. This could have been a separate book by itself, albeit not a very good one. The ringworld engineers ringworld series book 2 ebook. Since piersons puppeteers are foremost concerned with their own safety and the survival of their species, the most important puppeteer is considered to be behind, or protected by, every other member of the species. This is a subseries of larry nivens known space universe and eventually merges with the fleet of worlds series. Much of the work dealing with the ringworld is about the difficulties of such a large world. The novel is based around travelling to and investigating a mysterious artificial world. The hindmost s servantsinrebellion both looked a bit the worse for wear. Such a ring would have an inhabitable surface area equal to almost three million planets the size of the earth. The second ringworld expedition takes place in 2878, 98 years later. The crew can then use the ships hyperdrive to get home.
The third book in the series, ringworld throne, takes place after a cataclysmic threat to the ring has been averted by earth spaceman louis wu and friends, at the expense of the lives of many inhabitants. Definition of devil take the hindmost in the idioms dictionary. They first go to the puppeteer home world, where they learn that the expeditions goal is to investigate the ringworld, a gigantic artificial ring, to see if it poses any threat. Of all of nivens ringworld novels, this is my favourite. Imagine a giant ring, a million miles wide, with a radius of one earth orbit and a circumference of some 600 million miles. It had been a while since i last read a book in this series and so i was glad the authors included some background to the story. Excellent book, it takes an author with guts to write a story like this. Ringworld audiobooks listen to the full series audible.
Piersons puppeteers, the aliens who discovered it, are understandably wary of encountering the builders of such an immense structure and have assembled a team of two humans, a mad puppeteer and a kzin, a huge catlike alien, to explore it. Ringworlds children has a reasonable story hence the extra star but as an entertainment, its fatally compromised by nivens writing style which has declined to the point where i cant enjoy reading it. In ringworld, 200yearold human louis wu is recruited by a twoheaded alien named nessus to join him, a catlike. The ringworld series, book 2 audible audiobook unabridged larry niven author, paul michael garcia narrator, blackstone audio, inc. However, due to poor reception, a new sequel, ring 2, was released in 1999 which continued the storyline of ring, but was not based on suzukis books. Ring world was awesome, as were several other titles mentioned, especially footfall and lucifers hammer. The puppeteer hopes to regain status with his fellow citizens by traveling to the ringworld to bring back treasures.
We never get to know the name of this deposed hindmost. Ringworld series by larry niven goodreads share book. The ringworld throne is a science fiction novel by american writer larry niven, first published in 1996. Ringworld tells the story of louis wu and his companions on a mission to the ringworld, a rotating wheel space station, an alien construct in space 186 million miles in diameter. Devil take the hindmost idioms by the free dictionary. Come back to the ringworldthe most astonishing feat of engineering ever encountered. That even leaves nivin room for a couple more books before butting up to ringworld. The leader of the puppeteers is known as the hindmost. The universe includes ringworld, the ringworld prequels, the mankzin series and several standalone novels. The hindmost hopes to acquire ringworld technology, specifically matter. While praising the novel generally, he faulted niven. The hindmost, an alien watcher exiled from his own world, calls wus. The ringworld engineers has all the imaginativeness, convincing.
The window in the hindmost s dance was a realtime view from the webeye device in hidden patriarchs fore crows nest. The book concludes with louis and speaker discussing returning to the ringworld. A maddened, deposed hindmost is responsible for louis wus return to the ringworld database. After i finished betrayer of worlds i did some digging around in the ringworld sequels and tried to come up with a definitive answer. This study guide consists of approximately 48 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of ringworld.
The questions are different enough not to merge, but the same answer applies. Another great set of two is legacy of heorot and beowulfs children. I was actually a little surprised by this sequel as i didnt realize larry niven was going to write more on the series. This world turns out to actually be an artificial structure, created not by a force of nature, but by this quasi planets strange inhabitants. World of ptavv reveals more about the ancient slavers that ruled the galaxy. Ring smart home security systems eero wifi stream 4k video in. Hindmost is a puppeteer term for any leader, especially their ruler. A return voyage to the astonishing world of larry nivens ringworld, with even more remarkable adventures and surprises, and a solution to that tantalizing question left from the earlier book.
I would strongly recommend the unabridged audiobooks. Loved the concept, and because i was so intrigued with the concept of, well, a ring world, i stubbornly finished the book. By earth date 2780, at the end of betrayer of worlds, achilles is the hindmost of the concordance. What the window showed was more real than the dancers. The ringworld series is a series of science fiction novels written by american author larry niven. This rousing sequel to the classic ringworld continues th.
In ringworld, niven created one mindbogglingly brilliant scientific concept and. In the sequels, the conservatives took over power on the fleet of worlds and the deposed hindmost kidnaps louis wu and chmeee and leads them in the second expedition to the ringworld. The ring is far enough out that the heat is comfortable for humans to live on. Welcome to ringworld, an intermediate step between dyson spheres and planets. The ringworld engineers ringworld series book 2 and millions of other. In ringworld, 200yearold human louis wu is recruited by. Niven later added three sequel novels and then cowrote. After ten years of wandering around the ringworld and aging, the hindmost convinces him that he killed far fewer people than expected. The ringworld engineers by larry niven overdrive rakuten. A new place is being built, a world of huge dimensions, encompassing millions of miles, stronger than any planet before it. Achilles is supposed to still be in power when the ringworld saga occurs.
Some of the same characters appear from the first novel, most prominently, louie wu and chmeee. Ringworld is a 1970 science fiction novel by larry niven, set in his known space universe and considered a classic of science fiction literature. While the ring world would seem to be the focus of the book and was, in fact, quite interesting i found that it was the, more or less, related ideas that made the story sing. Listen to ringworld engineers audiobook by larry niven. Its been twenty years since the quixotic and worldsweary louis wu discovered the ringworld. Louie and chmeee are kidnapped by a puppeteer and taken back to the ringworld to search for an artifact that will help the puppeteer to his political aspirations. At the center of the ring rests this unusual world s sun. Now he and speakertoanimals are going back, captives of the hindmost, a deposed puppeteer leader. As a kid i was excited about every book, made drawings of. The hindmost has been booted from its post by a rival puppeteer political faction. In 1998, hideo nakata made a new japanese adaptation of the book in his film ring. The known space universe began in 1966 with larrys debut novel, world of ptavvs.
Download the knitting all around stitch dictionary. Furthermore, it answers a lot of questions that have been tantalizing his readers for a long time. The fleet of world series consists of five books by the same authors. Ninetythree million miles in radius the equivalent of one earth orbit or 600 miles long 1,000 meters thick, and much sturdier than a dyson sphere. This world turns out to actually be an artificial structure, created not by a force of nature, but by.
The surface of this planet, unlike our round earth, is flat and long like a ribbon, and forms a circle, or ring. The window in the hindmosts dance was a realtime view from the webeye device in hidden patriarchs fore crows nest. And in the latest fate of worlds, it is revealed that hindmost is baedeker. Fate of worlds is the fifth and final book in both the ringworld series and the fifth and final book in the fleet of worlds series. In and of itself, its a fairly acceptable book, but its worse than engineers book 2. The ringworld engineers has all the imaginativeness, convincing detail, and narrative vivacity that have come to be associated with the works of larry niven. The ringworld engineers is a 1980 science fiction novel by american writer larry niven. Below is a list of larry nivens known space and ringworld books in order of when they were originally published and in chronological order. The hindmosts servantsinrebellion both looked a bit the worse for wear.
Larry niven caved in and wrote a sequel which he admits in the introduction he hadnt. Fleet of worlds 2007, juggler of worlds 2008, 2 destroyer of worlds 2009,3 betrayer of worlds 2010,4 and fate of worlds. They find a ringworld, a ribbon millions of miles long built around a distant sun. Ringworld project gutenberg selfpublishing ebooks read. In ringworld, 200yearold human louis wu is recruited by a twoheaded alien named nessus to join him, a catlike warrior alien named speaker, and the infinitely lucky human teela brown to explore an alien artifact.
Algis budrys found ringworld to be excellent and entertaining. Now he and speakerto animals are going back, captives of the hindmost, a deposed puppeteer leader. An epic science fiction series by larry niven set on the original big dumb object. Their technology is minimal and some species are nonsentient. I reread his first novel world of ptavvs from 1966 to check whether it was me that had changed, or nivens writing. Borrow ebooks, audiobooks, and videos from thousands of public libraries worldwide. Larry nivens novel ringworld is, according to wikipedia, followed by three sequels, and preceded by four prequels. A place of untold technological wonders, home to myriad humanoid races, and world of some of the most beloved science fiction stories ever written. He wrote it as a replacement after being unable to finish his contracted novel the ghost ships, the sequel to the integral trees and the smoke ring plot summary. The third book of the ring world series is pretty pointless to the series. What are the best audiobook versions of the lord of the. Two thirds of the book is about the machine people and other hominids that align themselves to fight a vampire menace. Get back to a boot camp mentality where its us against the world and devil take the hindmost. The ringworld series continues with this book, the ringworld engineers.
The ringworld throne project gutenberg selfpublishing. With louis help, the hindmost intends to regain his s. Louis wu and speaker to animals now known as chmee are kidnapped by the hindmost puppeteer mate of nessus from the previous book and brought to the ringworld again to steal a technology from it that will ensure the security of hindmosts political faction on the puppeteer world. Is it just me or is ringworld by larry niven hard to. It is the direct sequel to his previous work the ringworld engineers 1980. However, due to poor reception, a new sequel, ring 2, was released in 1999 which continued the storyline of ring, but was not based on. The original sequel to this was spiral, an adaptation of suzukis sequel to his first ring book. Its a good read set in the same ring world universe.
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