Larry Niven is the award-winning author of the Ringworld series, along with many other science fiction masterpieces, and fantasy novels including the Magic Goes Away series. His Beowulf's Children, co-authored with Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes, was a New York Times bestseller. He has received the Nebula Award, five Hugos, four Locus Awards, two Ditmars, the Prometheus, and the Robert A. Heinlein Award, among other honors. He lives in Chatsworth, California.
"After a decade, Niven returns to that marvel of engineering, a world consisting of an enormous circling star. . . . Action and clever world building should captivate newcomers to Ringworld, while returners will appreciate picking up loose ends from the previous Ringworld volumes." --Booklist on Ringworld's Children"A writer of supreme talent." --Tom Clancy"Great story telling is still alive in science fiction because of Larry Niven, and his finest work is the Ringworld series." --Orson Scott Card on Ringworld's Children"An involving and engrossing addition to one of science fiction's grand sagas." --Kirkus Reviews on Ringworld's Children"Niven's world has an inner logic grounded in science." --Entertainment Weekly on Ringworld's Children"For three and a half decades, nobody's done it better than Larry Niven. Ringworld's Children is his latest triumphant gift to his fans, filled with characters we've grown to love, set in a world we're dying to explore further, and brimming with an extravagant, insightful imagination that seems to grow sharper and stronger with every passing year." --Steven Barnes on Ringworld's Children"If there isn't a Ringworld out there somewhere, we ought to build one someday. Until then we have Larry Niven's. A rich and fantastic story." --Fred Saberhagen on Ringworld's Children"A marvelous book packed with enough mind-boggling ideas to keep a dozen lesser writers working for years." --David Gerrold on Ringworld's Children"Another fascinating and intriguing look at Ringworld, its implications, and its history, all while telling a fast-moving page turner." --L. E. Modesitt, Jr. on Ringworld's Children"Ringworld's Children is the most exciting Ringworld novel since the first, which makes it one of Larry Niven's best ever" --Spider Robinson on Ringworld's Children
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, a plot propelled primarily by technological infodumps) with the least appealing characteristics of sequelitis (i.e., a story no one can follow without fanatic dedication to earlier books). In the year 2893, 67 Ringworld days after Louis Wu, badly wounded in battle with "the Vampire protector, Bram," stepped into a healing autodoc, our hero awakens with a restored, younger body. The passive Louis and several alien companions soon get caught up in a war involving weaponery that could destroy Ringworld. The novel finally comes into its own about midway through, while a glossary and a cast of characters will help orient those new to the series. Agent, Eleanor Wood of the Spectrum Literary Agency. (July) Forecast: The high anticipation of the first Ringworld novel in a decade, backed by blurbs from Orson Scott Card, Steven Barnes and Fred Saberhagen, should help launch this onto many bestseller lists. Niven has won multiple Hugo and Nebula awards. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
"After a decade, Niven returns to that marvel of engineering, a world consisting of an enormous circling star. . . . Action and clever world building should captivate newcomers to Ringworld, while returners will appreciate picking up loose ends from the previous Ringworld volumes." --Booklist on Ringworld's Children"A writer of supreme talent." --Tom Clancy"Great story telling is still alive in science fiction because of Larry Niven, and his finest work is the Ringworld series." --Orson Scott Card on Ringworld's Children"An involving and engrossing addition to one of science fiction's grand sagas." --Kirkus Reviews on Ringworld's Children"Niven's world has an inner logic grounded in science." --Entertainment Weekly on Ringworld's Children"For three and a half decades, nobody's done it better than Larry Niven. Ringworld's Children is his latest triumphant gift to his fans, filled with characters we've grown to love, set in a world we're dying to explore further, and brimming with an extravagant, insightful imagination that seems to grow sharper and stronger with every passing year." --Steven Barnes on Ringworld's Children"If there isn't a Ringworld out there somewhere, we ought to build one someday. Until then we have Larry Niven's. A rich and fantastic story." --Fred Saberhagen on Ringworld's Children"A marvelous book packed with enough mind-boggling ideas to keep a dozen lesser writers working for years." --David Gerrold on Ringworld's Children"Another fascinating and intriguing look at Ringworld, its implications, and its history, all while telling a fast-moving page turner." --L. E. Modesitt, Jr. on Ringworld's Children"Ringworld's Children is the most exciting Ringworld novel since the first, which makes it one of Larry Niven's best ever" --Spider Robinson on Ringworld's Children
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