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Ringworld by Larry Niven

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Author Biography

Name: Larry Niven
Birth Date: April 30, 1938
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: Writer

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Biography of Laurence Van Cott Niven
7827 words, approx. 26.1 pages
Four major themes are central to Larry Niven's writing. The first of these concerns human relations with alien civilization, especially the first human contact. Often a human character will gain insight into individual aliens or even into alien civilizat...
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Biography of Larry Niven
2078 words, approx. 6.9 pages
Larry Niven writes science fiction with an emphasis on hard science. In his Hugo and Nebula award-winning book Ringworld, Niven constructed an enormous hoop-shaped artificial planet a million miles wide and with a diameter of 190 million miles. All the s...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Ringworld Information
2,717 words, approx. 9 pages
Ringworld is a Hugo and Nebula award-winning 1970 science fiction novel by Larry Niven, set in his Known Space universe. The work is widely considered one of the classics of science fiction literature. It is followed by three sequels, and it ties into...


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Publishers Weekly
The Ringworld Throne. (book reviews)
05/13/1996: 202 words, approx. 1 pages
Larry Niven. Del Rey, $23 (430p) ISBN 0-345-35861-9 An honored SF writer returns to his best-known creation: the artificial world, built far from Earth by aliens over a half million years ago, in the form of a ring 600 million miles in diameter,...
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Publishers Weekly
Ringworld's Children.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
06/28/2004: 223 words, approx. 1 pages
RINGWORLD'S CHILDREN LARRY NIVEN. Tor, $24.95 (288p) ISBN 0765-30167-9 # Ringworld (1970) and its many offspring (The Ringworld Engineers, etc.) are an SF institution. Unfortunately, bestseller Niven's first Ringworld installment in 10 years combines the worst qualities of hard SF (i.e., cardboard characters,...
 


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Ringworld by Larry Niven

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