7/2/2023 0 Comments Larry niven ring world![]() ![]() ![]() The thing is supposedly a million miles wide, 93 million miles in radius and thus around 600m miles long. It's an advanced form of a Dyson sphere: a huge, ring-shaped planet built by design rather than nature. The Ringworld in question is not whatever filthy thought came to your mind when you first registered the book's naive title but one of science fiction's most successful Big Dumb Objects. Niven's ideas have played a part in the lives of millions of people and helped console games on the way to being among the most important and impressive cultural artefacts of our time. The Ringworld of the book's title is a direct ancestor of the Halo system that in turn provided the name for the Xbox killer app. As well as having had a huge impact on nearly all subsequent space operas (Iain M Banks' Culture series and Alastair Reynolds' House of Suns are just two), the book has helped generate a multi-billion-dollar industry. ![]() Larry Niven's 1970 Hugo award winner, Ringworld, is arguably one of the most influential science fiction novels of the past 50 years. ![]()
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