Ringworld is one of several works dealing with carefully worked out alien worlds, including Poul Anderson's The Man Who Counts (1958) (also published as War of the Wing Men) and Hal Clements's Mission of Gravity (1955). The art of world-building, of designing a fictional planet from geography down to its inhabitants' recreations, is one of the highest accomplishments of hard science fiction. The ability to take a concept like the Ringworld and work out the.....
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