Louis is also celebrating his birthday in every time zone around the world sequentially thanks to cheap teleportation. Thanks to boosterspice, Louis is 200 years old, and still fit, trim, and vigorous. I found the setting interesting and well done, so I picked up Ringworld on a whim for my birthday. You won't be sorry.My introduction to Niven's Known Space was the short story 'Fly-by-Night' in There Will Be War Volume X. Or go to the local used bookstore, which will assuredly have a copy on hand. Go click that affiliate link and buy it now. This was a mistake.Ringworld is an amazing book, the hardest of hard sci fi, written by a genuine master of the craft. I read The Magic Goes Away in 2012, and my memories of it weren't as good as the review I wrote then, so I tended to shy away from Niven's solo work. I was even a huge fan of the Halo games in the early 2000s, which borrowed heavily from Niven's books for inspiration.Thus, while I should have read Ringworld sooner, I hadn't.

I had certainly heard of Ringworld, so that should have been a clue I would like it. I've read everything Niven and Pournelle wrote together, and liked it all. It is kind of strange that it took me so long to get around to reading this book. There is a lesson in each book:*** The variety of character typology from this novel is amazing!! Read more it still bothered me) but the novel gets big points for the overall collection of characters. There is a touch of misogynist (maybe expected for the time of the century when the book was written. *** On the plus side, the characters are awesome, in the sense that they are very different from each other. The novel contains an ocean of interesting and original material completely undeveloped or presented in a way that LITERALLY made me fall asleep a couple of times while listening to it.*** Way, WAYYYYY too many technical and physics details, which were not only dull but also rather incorrect at times. the structure of the novel was a total let-down for me: a group of explorers visit an alien 'artifact' (a ring of the size of Earth's orbit built by a seemingly extinct civilization) and as they go through different situations and landscapes they confer about physical concepts and possible anthropological theories. Reading Notes:*** Very old-school science fiction.*** The world(s) created is (are) extremely imaginative.

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