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Ringworld

Name: Ringworld
Author: Larry Niven

1970 novel by Larry Niven

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Author: Larry Niven
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1.Stated in Internet Speculative Fiction DatabaseRetrieved 2025-05-20
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Released: October 1970
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1.Stated in Internet Speculative Fiction DatabaseRetrieved 2025-05-20
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Language: English
Genre: science fiction
, adventure fiction
Followed by: The Ringworld Engineers
Awards: Hugo Award for Best Novel(1971)
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1.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/1971-hugo-awards/
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, Locus Award for Best Novel(1971)
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1.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_1971
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, NPR Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books
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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 tells the story of Louis Wu and his companions on a mission to the Ringworld, an enormous rotating ring, an alien construct in space 186 million miles in diameter. Niven later wrote three sequel novels and then cowrote, with Edward M. Lerner, four prequels and a final sequel; the five latter novels constitute the Fleet of Worlds series. All the novels in the Ringworld series tie into numerous other books set in Known Space. Ringworld won the Nebula Award in 1970, as well as both the Hugo Award and Locus Award in 1971.

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RRingworld: The Graphic NovelAmerican manga-style graphic novel series

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Part of the series: Ringworld series follows: none · followed by: The Ringworld Engineers
Takes place in fictional universe: Known Space
Country of origin: United States
Title: Ringworld
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1.Stated in Internet Speculative Fiction DatabaseRetrieved 2025-05-20
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Ringwelt
Mundo Anillo
Rengasmaailma
L'Anneau-monde
Gyűrűvilág
Burattinai nel cosmo
I Burattinai
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リングワールド
Žiedinis pasaulis
Ringwereld
Lumea Inelară
Prsten
Narrative location: Ringworld
Characters: Speaker-to-Animals
Louis Wu narrative role: protagonist
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Set in period: future
Form of creative work: novel
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1.Stated in Internet Speculative Fiction DatabaseRetrieved 2026-05-12
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Has version, edition or translation: Ringworld
L'Anneau-Monde
Ringworld
Mundo Anillo
Prstencový svět

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