num_pages: 342
description: Pierson's puppeteers, three-leg two-head aliens find immense structure in unexplored part of the universe. Frightened of meeting the builders, they send a team of two humans, a puppeteer and a kzin, eight-foot red-fur catlike alien. Ringworld is 180 million miles across, sun at center. But the expedition crashes, and crew face disastrously long trek.
language: English
title: Ringworld
titlecomplete: Ringworld (Ringworld, #1)
characters: Nessus (Niven), Teela Brown, Halrloprillalar Hotrufan, Louis Gridley Wu, Speaker-to-Animals
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Adventure, Space Opera, Science Fiction Fantasy, Classics, Space, Hugo Awards, Fantasy, Audiobook
ratings_count: 119255
places: Fleet of Worlds, Ringworld
series: Known Space (Publication Order), Ringworld and Before the Discovery of Ringworld, Ringworld, Known Space
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: Ballantine Books