Using their flycycles, they try to reach the rim of the ring, where they hope some technology can help them. The team now has to set out to find a way to get back into space, as well as fulfilling their original mission – learning more about the Ringworld. The severely damaged vessel collides with shadow-square wire, and then crash-lands on the Ringworld near a huge mountain. Their ship is disabled by the automated meteor defense system. None of the crew's attempts at contacting the Ringworld succeed.
Night is provided by an inner ring of shadow squares which are connected to each other by thin ultra strong shadow square wire. The ringworld has a habitable flat inner surface equivalent in area to approximately three million Earth-sized planets. It rotates, providing artificial gravity that is 99.2% as strong as Earth's gravity through the action of centrifugal force.
This 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), encircling a Sol-type star. They first travel to the Puppeteer home world, where they learn that the expedition's goal is to explore a ringworld. Speaker-to-Animals (Speaker) who is a Kzin, and Teela Brown who is a young human woman also join the voyage. He is confronted by Nessus, a Pierson's Puppeteer, and offered one of three open positions on an exploration voyage beyond Known Space. He has experienced life thoroughly, and is thinking of taking a trip to and beyond the reaches of Known Space, all alone in a spaceship for a year or more. Despite his age, Louis is in perfect physical condition but is bored. Louis Gridley Wu is celebrating his 200th birthday. Ringworld won the Hugo Award in 1970, as well as both the Nebula Award and Locus Award in 1971. It is followed by three sequels, and preceded by four prequels, and ties into numerous other books set in Known Space.
From Ringworld at Wikipedia Template:Infobox bookX Ringworld is a 1970 science fiction novel by Larry Niven, set in his Known Space universe and considered a classic of science fiction literature.
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