Rereading the best science fiction writers of all time: Larry Niven, author of Ringworld

Ringworld
Larry Nevin (Golanz)

Ringworld by Larry Niven was published in 1970 for huge praise, and won the Hugo and Nebula Awards; It has been printed since then.

He came out when humans just landed on the moon and seemed that we may be on our way to the stars. The title alone raises a certain golden age of science fiction, when the book (most of them males) wrestle great physics and great ideas, imagining a future as humans had adventures across the galaxy.

Authors like Niven wanted to imagine what might be in the universe, and they are proud to try to obtain science properly. with Ringworld Includes in New world Book Club this month, seemed to be a good time to reconsider the novel, after he read it last time in adolescence.

How was this 55 -year -old work standing on time? After all, many books of this era are poorly dated. Sometimes this is because science made their ridiculous lines; Sometimes this is because sexual politics (or other cultural aspects) have begun to compete over the decades.

Well, at first, this book is stuffed with ideas! You can see why you achieved great success and ended up to be part of a sprawling network of follow -up stories, pre -and -being.

Looking at the amount of the inner flag that was thrown to us, the novel was surprisingly found ZipPy and Light Light. The 200 -year -old Nissus, a 200 -year -old hero Luis Gridli Woo, a human and red adventurer, is close to Nissus, a foreigner known as brides, and asks for a mysterious mission in exchange for reaching new technology.

Ringworld The golden age of science fiction raises when the book (most of them men) wrestle with great physics and great ideas

Wu and Nessus should join their adventure through cats, strange “Kzinti” called the speaker to elegance (animals concerned are other types), and a young human woman called Tela Brown, whose characteristics become clear only later in the story. This gang is transmitted to Ringworld called, and after being launched by an old security system, its lands are destroyed.

Ringworld is the star of this show. It is an ancient artifact with an almost unimaginable range: a bar world, flying around a star, with a width of 1.6 million kilometers with an internal surface area of ​​3 million land. With a diameter of 305 million km, it is designed with an amazing lift material. On the inner surface of the terraforted world, a civilization fell, but life continues.

Wu and the gang should travel a wide distance across the inner part of the ring to find a way to leave it; Along the way, as you may expect, they have a lot of adventures.

As for the norms of this novel for the year 1970, there are things that the editor may want to talk about, and they may want to give women characters more depth.

Meanwhile, the science was completely chosen by readers at the time, to the extent that the follow -up of Niven, Ringworld engineerS, was published, after a decade, basically Riposte for all those who chose mechanics Ringworld.

This is not my favorite Nevin. that it A world in time. However, reconsideration Ringworld He made me hungry to decline in his world. I plan to re -read some other classics, such as The food is in the eye of GodBesides RingworldFollow -up, because there are many interesting questions that were not answered in the first book.

Emily also recommends …

Draku Al -Haqa
Larry Nevin (Tor Publishing)

In the strict sense of the word, this section must be entitled “Larry Nevin also recommends.” I recently exchanged emails with him to plan the interview, and asked him about one of his books that he recommends in particular. He answered immediately with Draku Al -Haqa. I had no time to read it yet, but I am very happy to pass this recommendation from the man himself.

Emily E. Wilson is a former editor of a new world and a three -way author, which is located in ancient Mesopotamia. The last novel in the series, Ninshubar, in August. You can find it in Emilyhwilson.com, or follow it on X Emilyhwilson and Instagram @EmilyHwilson1