Ringworld by Larry Niven
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Science fiction fun of the highest order. Ringworld is a great “what if?” concept novel about a group of characters on a mission to explore a massive ring-shaped world around a distant star.
The ideas present here are lots of fun, and the characters are solid and, if not exactly “believable” (we’re dealing with aliens here, folks), they’re at least true to personalities we readers can identify/sympathize with. In sci-fi, that’s noteworthy. Too often you have characters doing inexplicable things for the sake of the plot. Not here.
I came to Larry Niven late, and I’m kind of glad. It’s a wonderful treat for a reader to realize there’s another author out there with a nice-sized back-catalog of good books to get through.
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