It’s a little like H G Wells The Time Machine, which I read about five years ago now, wondering whether I’d really read it before, yet how did I know so much about the strange people in it? Thus it is with Ringworld. Having read Ringworld again, I wonder whether I ever really read it. I could with things like the Pern books, and Nine Princes in Amber, and Stranger in a Strange Land, and even Dune (which I loved at the time, but hated the sequel, and completely turned my back on Dune-mania, so that I wouldnt read it if you paid me nowadays). When I listed it on Goodreads, I gave it four stars, because I couldn’t actually remember the plot. My ReviewĪs far as I was concerned, I read this master of science fiction, an altogether unmissable classic, when I was in my teens or twenties, somewhere around 1978 or so. Their destination is the Ringworld, an artificially constructed ring with high walls that hold 3 million times the area of Earth. Louis Wu, accompanied by a young woman with genes for luck, and a captured kzin-a warlike species resembling 8-foot-tall cats-are taken on a space ship run by a brilliant 2-headed alien called Nessus. Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novel, RINGWORLD remains a favorite among science fiction readers. This copy I bought from Amazon for my Kindle. I feel I should be reading and reviewing more science fiction, but I have to be careful it doesn’t mess with my own writing ideas. Ringworld was a chosen book for July for the Space Opera Goodreads group.
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