The Tales of Known Spaceâ ¦ is a wide-ranging, complex, unusually well integrated future history which, within an essentially optimistic and technophilic frame, provides an explanatory structure for the expansion of humanity into space, one notable from the first for the complexity of the Universe into which it introduces the burgeoning human race" (Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, 873). Larry Niven "set his mark on the United States science fiction field, winning four short-fiction Hugos, and both Hugo and Nebula in 1971 for Ringworld (1970), a capstone title in his seminal Tales of Known Space sequenceâ ¦ In the novels and stories of this sequence, and in some of his other work, he was seen for some time as hard sf's last best hope and there can be no doubt that hard-sf writers dominant in the 1980sâ ¦ owe much to the scope of Larry Niven's inventiveness, the sense he conveys of technological ingenuity as being ultimately beneficial, and his cognitive exuberance. Louis Wu: human and old bored with having lived too fully for far too many years.
It won the 1970 Nebula Award and the Hugo Award in 1971. Used - Paperback - 1970 - Del ReyFour travelers come to the ringworld. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers by Dean Ellis. The book club will read & discuss Ringworld a 1970 science fiction novel written by Larry Niven. Paperback original first edition of this classic work, which went on to win the 1970 Nebula and 1971 Hugo award for best novel.
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