num_pages: 357
description:  the most stunning artifact in known space, an articficial world with three million times Earth's surface area. Who built it? And where are they? In this stunning sequel to Larry Niven's Hugo and Nebula award-winning novel, Louis Wu (now a near-hopeless lirehead hooked on electrical ecstasy), the aged Kzin warrior, Speaker-to-Animals, and the Hindmost, puppeteer mate of mad Nessus, return to Ringworld. Their aim is to prevent cataclysm. IN the process, they find themselves learning Ringworld's incredible secrets...
language: English
title: The Ringworld Engineers
titlecomplete: The Ringworld Engineers
characters: Chmeee, Teela Brown, Louis Gridley Wu, The Hindmost
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Adventure, Speculative Fiction, Space Opera, Science Fiction Fantasy, Space, Novels, Fantasy, Audiobook
ratings_count: 31959
series: Known Space (Publication Order), Ringworld and Before the Discovery of Ringworld, Ringworld, Known Space
awards: awardedAt: 347184000000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 347184000000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston