Annotation
In this prize-winning book, 4 unique characters are sent to explore a distant place called Ringworld. A sequel is The Ringworld Engineers (1985).
Awards
1971 Hugo Awards
1971 Locus Awards
1970 Nebula Awards
Characters
| Name | Wu, Louis |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Scientist |
| Traits | Human |
| Cynic | |
| Name | Brown, Teela |
| Gender | Female |
| Trait | Human |
| Name | Speaker-to-Animals |
| Occupation | Diplomat |
| Trait | Alien |
| Name | Nessus |
| Trait | Alien |
| Genre | Fiction Science fiction --Hard --Alien worlds Adventure Classic |
| Topics | Artifacts Space exploration Mysteries Overpopulation Human extinction Colonization |
| Setting | Outer space Circular, artificial, terraformed habitat light years from Earth that orbits its own sun Structure that is 1,000,000 miles wide, has a circumference of 600,000,000 miles, and has about 3,000,000 times the surface area of Earth |
| Series | ||
| Ringworld series | ||
| 1 | Ringworld | |
| 2 | The Ringworld engineers | |
| 3 | The Ringworld throne | |
| 4 | Ringworld's children | |