num_pages: 288
description: Pierson's puppeteers, strange, three-legged, two-headed aliens, have discovered an immense structure in a hitherto unexplored part of the universe. Frightened of meeting the builders of such a structure, the puppeteers set about assembling a team consisting of two humans, a puppeteer and a kzin, an alien not unlike an eight-foot-tall, red-furred cat, to explore it. The artefact is a vast circular ribbon of matter, some 180 million miles across, with a sun at its centre - the Ringworld. But the expedition goes disastrously wrong when the ship crashlands and its motley crew faces a trek across thousands of miles of the Ringworld's surface.
language: English
title: Ringworld
titlecomplete: Ringworld
characters: Louis Gridley Wu, Halrloprillalar Hotrufan, Speaker-to-Animals, Teela Brown, Nessus (Niven)
genres: Audiobook, Science Fiction, Classics, Adventure, Science Fiction Fantasy, Space, Fiction, Space Opera, Fantasy, Hugo Awards
ratings_count: 119268
places: Fleet of Worlds, Ringworld
series: Known Space, Known Space (Publication Order), Ringworld, Ringworld and Before the Discovery of Ringworld
awards: awardedAt: 31564800000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 28800000
name: Nebula Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 31564800000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 284025600000
name: Seiun Award 星雲賞
category: Best Foreign Novel
publisher: Gollancz