num_pages: 288
description: The artefact is a circular ribbon of matter six hundred million miles long and ninety million miles in radius. Pierson's puppeteers, the aliens who discovered it, are understandably wary of encountering the builders of such an immense structure and have assembled a team of two humans, a mad puppeteer and a kzin, a huge cat-like alien, to explore it. But a crash landing on the vast edifice forces the crew on a desperate and dangerous trek across the Ringworld.
language: English
title: Ringworld
titlecomplete: Ringworld (Ringworld, #1)
characters: Speaker-to-Animals, Teela Brown, Halrloprillalar Hotrufan, Nessus (Niven), Louis Gridley Wu
genres: Audiobook, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Classics, Hugo Awards, Fiction, Adventure, Science Fiction Fantasy, Space, Space Opera
ratings_count: 119260
places: Fleet of Worlds, Ringworld
series: Ringworld and Before the Discovery of Ringworld, Ringworld, Known Space (Publication Order), 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: Gollancz