num_pages: 342
description: **Best Novel 1970 Nebula Award **Best Novel 1971 Hugo AwardThe artifact is a vast circular ribbon of matter, some 180 million miles across, with a sun at its center. Pierson's puppeteers--strange, three-legged, two-headed aliens--discovered this ''Ringworld'' in a hitherto unexplored part of the galaxy. Curious about the immense structure, but frightened by the prospect of meeting the builders, they set about assembling a team to explore -Louis Wu, human -- old and bored with having lived too fully for too many years, seeking an adventure, and all too capable of handling it.-Nessus, puppeteer -- a trembling coward from a species with an inbuilt survival pattern of nonviolence. This particular puppeteer, however, is insane.-Speaker-to-Animals, kzin -- large, orange-furred, and carnivorous. The kzin are one of the most savage life-forms known.The party's expedition, however, goes disastrously wrong when their ship crash-lands and its motley crew faces a daunting trek across thousands of miles of Ringworld territory.
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: 119281
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: Henry Holt & Co