The Ringworld Throne, Larry Niven
The Ringworld Throne, Larry Niven
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The Ringworld Throne
The Ringworld Series, Book 3

Author: Larry Niven

Narrator: Paul Michael Garcia

Unabridged: 13 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/24/2011

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

Come back to the Ringworldthe most astonishing feat of engineering ever encountered.A place of untold technological wonders, home to myriad humanoid races, and world of some of the most beloved science fiction stories ever written. The human Louis Wu; the puppeteer known as the Hindmost; Acolyte, son of the Kzin called Chmeee: legendary beings brought together once again in the defense of the Ringworld. Something is going on with the protectors. Incoming spacecraft are being destroyed before they can reach the Ringworld.Vampires are massing. And the Ghouls have their own agendaif anyone dares approach them to learn. Each race on the Ringworld has always had its own protector. Now it looks as if the Ringworld itself needs a protector. But who will sit on the Ringworld throne?

About Larry Niven

Larry Niven is the multiple Hugo, Locus, and Nebula Award–winning author of science fiction short stories and novels, including the Ringworld series, as well as many other science fiction masterpieces. His Footfall, coauthored with Jerry Pournelle, was a New York Times bestseller.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Katherine on March 15, 2013

I was excited to find this book, because I hoped Niven had something new to say about the Ringworld. Well, he didn't. In fact, I almost gave up after the first hundred pages or so, because I found it so deathly dull. The first half of the book deals with a whole slew of characters, most of whom never......more

Goodreads review by Mars on August 11, 2016

The downhill trend of the series continues. In and of itself, it's a fairly acceptable book, but it's worse than Engineers (book 2). Action jumps around, the whole vampire hunter thing to which half the book is devoted leads essentially nowhere, a crew of 4 (which is easy to keep track of) plus no-m......more

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