352 Pages, Borrowed from Local Library
Another Science Fiction Classic!
Ringworld won the Nebula award in 1970 and the Hugo and Locus Award in 1971.
You know a book is going to be good when the main character Louis Wu is 200 years old and flies off in a ship called "Lying Bastard"!
Wu, along with Speaker, a cat-like alien called a Kzin, a beautiful woman called Teela, and Nessus a three legged, 2 headed alien called a Pierson's Puppeteer, fly out of Known Space to explore a Ringworld.A Ringworld is an artificial ring about one million miles wide and approximately the diameter of Earth's orbit (which makes it about 600 million miles in circumference), encircling a sunlike star. (I copied this description from Wikipedia as I tried a few times to describe it and couldn't!)
I consider this book a nice mix of science and soap opera which kept me entertained from start to finish.
The only problem I had was there were a few instances were things got a bit far-fetched...which is ironic considering this is a fictional tale of humans and aliens flying to a planet shaped like a ring!
Otherwise I enjoyed it immensely! There are 3 sequels and 4 prequels so I'll keep an eye out for them.
I give Ringworld 4.5 "Tasps" out of 5.
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