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Ringworld won the Hugo Award in 1970, as well as both the Nebula Award and Locus Award in 1971.
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Ringworld and won
In addition to the Nebula award in 1970 and the Hugo and Locus awards in 1971 for Ringworld, Niven won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story for " Neutron Star " in 1967.
Ringworld and Hugo
His best-known work is Ringworld ( 1970 ), which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards.
# Ringworld ( 1970 )— Nebula Award, 1970 Hugo and Locus SF Awards winner, 1971
# The Ringworld Engineers ( 1980 )— Hugo and Locus SF Awards nominee, 1981
* Hugo Award: Larry Niven, Ringworld
A Kzin character, Speaker-to-Animals, subsequently played a major role in Niven's Hugo and Nebula award-winning Ringworld ( 1970 ), giving considerably more background of the Kzinti and their interactions with human civilizations.
It is the first sequel to Niven's award-winning Ringworld and was nominated for both the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1981.
Ringworld Engineers was nominated for both the 1981 Hugo and Locus Awards in the Novel Category.
Ringworld and Award
* Nebula Award: Larry Niven, Ringworld
Ringworld and 1970
For example a group at MIT concluded that the planet Mesklin in Hal Clement's 1953 novel Mission of Gravity would have had a sharp edge at the equator, and a Florida high-school class calculated that in Larry Niven's 1970 novel Ringworld the topsoil would have slid into the seas in a few thousand years.
Ringworld is a 1970 science fiction novel by Larry Niven, set in his Known Space universe and considered a classic of science fiction literature.
( Ringworld, Chapter 13, published 1970.
:— Ringworld, Chapter 5, published 1970
Nessus is featured in the short story " The Soft Weapon " ( printed in the 1968 collection Neutron Star ) and is one of the expeditionaries to the Ringworld in the 1970 book of the same name.
Ringworld and well
In Niven's novel Ringworld's Children the Ringworld itself is converted into a gigantic Quantum II hyperdrive and launched into hyperspace while within its star's gravity well.
Ringworld's Children reveals that there is life in hyperspace around gravity wells and that hyperspace predators eat spaceships which appear in hyperspace close to large masses, thus explaining why a structure as large as the Ringworld can safely engage the hyperdrive in a star's gravity well.
The team now has to set out to find a way to get back into space, as well as fulfilling their original mission – learning more about the Ringworld.
Robert A. Heinlein's book, The Number of the Beast passes through many famous fictional worlds including those of Alice in Wonderland, Gulliver's Travels, and Ringworld, as well as some of Heinlein's own works, and of course the land of Oz.
Ringworld and both
In Ringworld's Children, it is suggested boosterspice may actually be adapted from Tree-of-Life, without the symbiotic virus that enabled hominids to metamorphose from Pak Breeder stage to Pak Protector stage ( mutated Pak breeders were the ancestors of both Homo sapiens and the hominids of the Ringworld ).
Only two publications were ever published, the Ringworld role-playing game box set itself, and the Ringworld Companion, both in 1984 by Chaosium.
According to Don D ' Ammassa, both this and Pratchett's 1981 sci-fi novel Strata are spoofing parts of Larry Niven's Ringworld.
Ringworld and 1971
This led MIT students attending the 1971 Worldcon to chant, " The Ringworld is unstable!
In the novel's introduction, Niven says that MIT students attending the 1971 World Science Fiction Convention chanted, " The Ringworld is unstable!
Ringworld and .
A percentile skill-based system, BRP was used as the basis for most of the games published by Chaosium, including Stormbringer, Worlds of Wonder, Call of Cthulhu, Superworld, Ringworld, Elfquest, Hawkmoon, Elric !, and Nephilim.
These generic rules formed the basis of many of Chaosium's later RPGs, such as Call of Cthulhu, Stormbringer, Nephilim, and Ringworld.
In various other books, for example Ringworld, Niven suggests that easy transportation might be disruptive to traditional behavior and open the way for new forms of parties, spontaneous congregations, or shopping trips around the world.
The same book famously featured a devastating inaccuracy: the eponymous Ringworld is not ( in ) a stable orbit and would crash into the sun without active stabilization.
Niven fixed these errors in his sequel The Ringworld Engineers, and noted them in the foreword.
The Ringworld series is set in the Known Space universe.
Niven's most famous contribution to the SF genre is his concept of the Ringworld, a band of approximately the same diameter as Earth's orbit rotating around a star.
When it was pointed out to Niven that the Ringworld was dynamically unstable, in that once the center of rotation drifted away from the central sun, gravity would pull the ring into contact with the star, he used this as a plot element in the sequel novel, The Ringworld Engineers.
It is one of the most visible influences of the Ringworld concept on popular culture.
Ringworld companion series ( with Edward M. Lerner )
The fictional universe is also the home of species from outside Known Space, including the hominid inhabitants of a megastructure called Ringworld.
In Ringworld it is revealed that this was in part due to clandestine meddling by the Pierson's Puppeteers.
By the time Ringworld takes place, Kzinti are able to deal with other races diplomatically, rather than by attacking and enslaving them.
Female Kzinti are not sapient, although among the archaic Kzinti found on the Ringworld some are.
No description is given, but the Ringworld RPG suggests they resemble horned birds and that their homeworld has low gravity.
* Outsiders: very advanced, fragile aliens shaped like cats o ' nine tails that, according to Ringworld, probably evolved on a cold, low gravity world resembling Nereid.
When the Protectors reappear in The Ringworld Engineers and its sequels, it is strongly indicated that they constructed the Ringworld.
Likewise, every hominid species found on the Ringworld is descended from Pak breeders, and all are susceptible to the virus of Tree-of-life.
Some Martians still exist on the " Map of Mars " on the Ringworld.
Also figuring in some stories are dolphins and other intelligent cetaceans, and various offshoots of Homo sapiens including the associate lineage of the hominids of the Ringworld.
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