has any one besides me on here read the Ringworld books by Larry Niven?

[slimjim]

I stumbled across them recently and I just want to know how popular they where/are?

[DigiFluid]

I've read the first. One of my favourite sci-fi books of all time.

[slimjim]

I've read the first. One of my favourite sci-fi books of all time.

one 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

[hedwig]

I stumbled across them recently and I just want to know how popular they where/are?

Read them so long ago, I barely remember them ... other than having read them.

[Ukko]

Yes. I didnt really enjoy it. If the book didnt have that annoying woman in it, i may have.

one 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

As for this, i've heard Niven got some of his science wrong.
The Ringworld is unstable!The Ringworld is unstable! *Panics and flails*

[maneth]

Read them so long ago, I barely remember them ... other than having read them.

Same here.

[slimjim]

Yes. I didnt really enjoy it. If the book didnt have that annoying woman in it, i may have.

you should try reading the rest of the series then, she's not in the other books

[lordofseas]

Meh.