Pierson's puppeteers, strange, three-legged, two-headed aliens, have discovered an immense structure in a hitherto unexplored part of the universe. Frightened of meeting the builders of such a structure, the puppeteers set about assembling a team consisting of two humans, a puppeteer and a kzin, an alien not unlike an eight-foot-tall, red-furred cat, to explore it. The artefact is a vast circular ribbon of matter, some 180 million miles across, with a sun at its centre - the Ringworld. But the expedition goes disastrously wrong when the ship crashlands and its motley crew faces a trek across thousands of miles of the Ringworld's surface.
| ISBN: | 9780575077027 |
| Publication date: | 9th June 2005 |
| Author: | Larry Niven |
| Publisher: | Gollancz an imprint of Orion |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 288 pages |
| Series: | SF Masterworks |
| Genres: |
Science Fiction |