I stumbled across them recently and I just want to know how popular they where/are?
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has any one besides me on here read the Ringworld books by Larry Niven?
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Originally posted by DigiFluid View PostI've read the first. One of my favourite sci-fi books of all time.
genetic luck is a pretty silly concept though, that's the sort of thing I'd expect to find in a Terry Pratchett/Douglas Adams style parody of this kind of science fiction storyLast edited by slimjim; 06 April 2012, 04:04 PM.
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Originally posted by slimjim View PostI stumbled across them recently and I just want to know how popular they where/are?
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Yes. I didnt really enjoy it. If the book didnt have that annoying woman in it, i may have.
Originally posted by slimjim View Postone of the things I like about it is that (in the first book at least) every thing out in known space is typical future fantasy with in unexplained faster then light ships, gravity generators and all that jazz, where as every thing set on the ring world is proper science fiction where every thing has to be given plausible real world science explanations, like how the ring world simulates gravity by the centrifugal force generated by spinning rather then just having magic gravity generators.
genetic luck is a pretty silly concept though, that's the sort of thing I'd expect to find in a Terry Pratchett/Douglas Adams style parody of this kind of science fiction story
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