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Ringworld (Ringworld #1)
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bookshelves: science-fiction, love, recently-reviewed, travel, humour
Feb 10, 2019
bookshelves: science-fiction, love, recently-reviewed, travel, humour
Read 2 times. Last read September 8, 2019 to September 14, 2019.
Dazzlingly huge in space is Ringworld
An artificial construct three million times the surface area of the Earth
The explorers;
Louis Wu - an old crafty human
Teela Brown - a human bred for luck
Speaker-to-Animals - a warrior Kzin alien - imagine a giant tiger
Nessus - a puppeteer alien - from a paranoid, high tech race
Think big
The rim of the ring expanded in their view. It was a wall, rising inward toward the star. They could see its black, space-exposed outer side silhouetted against the sunlit blue landscape. A low rim wall, but low only in comparison to the ring itself.
"If the ring is a million miles across," Louis estimated, "The rim wall must be at least a thousand miles high. Well, now we know. That's what holds the air in."
See;
Floating cities and fallen buildings
Fields of deadly sunflowers that burn plant-eating animals into fertilizer
Sun Squares that divide day and night
Fist of God - a mountain a thousand miles high
Ringworld is so huge that a single book cannot explore it all.
Ringworld - the first of an exciting series!
Enjoy!
An artificial construct three million times the surface area of the Earth
The explorers;
Louis Wu - an old crafty human
Teela Brown - a human bred for luck
Speaker-to-Animals - a warrior Kzin alien - imagine a giant tiger
Nessus - a puppeteer alien - from a paranoid, high tech race
Think big
The rim of the ring expanded in their view. It was a wall, rising inward toward the star. They could see its black, space-exposed outer side silhouetted against the sunlit blue landscape. A low rim wall, but low only in comparison to the ring itself.
"If the ring is a million miles across," Louis estimated, "The rim wall must be at least a thousand miles high. Well, now we know. That's what holds the air in."
See;
Floating cities and fallen buildings
Fields of deadly sunflowers that burn plant-eating animals into fertilizer
Sun Squares that divide day and night
Fist of God - a mountain a thousand miles high
Ringworld is so huge that a single book cannot explore it all.
Ringworld - the first of an exciting series!
Enjoy!
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Quotes Martin Liked
“They do not use lasers, they do not use radio, they do not use hyperwave. What are they using for communication? Telepathy? Written messages? Big mirrors?" "Parrots," Louis suggested. He got up to join them at the door to the control room. "Huge parrots, specially bred for their oversized lungs. They're too big to fly. They just sit on hilltops and scream at each other.”
― Ringworld
― Ringworld
“Humans," said the puppeteer, "should not be allowed to run loose. You will surely harm yourselves.”
― Ringworld
― Ringworld
“For two hundred and fifty years the kzinti had not attacked human space. They had nothing to attack with. For two hundred and fifty years men had not attacked the kzinti worlds; and no kzin could understand it. Men confused them terribly.”
― Ringworld
― Ringworld
“On a world built to ordered specification, there was no logical reason for such a mountain to exist. Yet every world should have at least one unclimbable mountain.”
― Ringworld
― Ringworld
“Music had played suddenly through the cabin, complex and lovely, rich in minor tones, like the sad call of a sex-maddened computer. Nessus whistled.”
― Ringworld
― Ringworld
Reading Progress
Finished Reading
February 10, 2019
– Shelved
February 10, 2019
– Shelved as:
science-fiction
September 8, 2019
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Started Reading
September 14, 2019
– Shelved as:
love
September 14, 2019
– Shelved as:
recently-reviewed
September 14, 2019
– Shelved as:
travel
September 14, 2019
–
Finished Reading
March 29, 2022
– Shelved as:
humour
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Sep 17, 2019 02:34PM
Great Review Martin, love the images
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Thanks Adrian for your kind words.I'm experimenting with added images to give reviews more impact.
Awesome review, i had to downgrade it a star from the five i gave it due to the sometimes meandering pace but excellent hard Sci-Fi through and through. Part of the books that got me into reading, together with Ludlum's books, Sydney Sheldon, Stephen King, Dune, Foundation and Arthur C. Clarkes' seminal epics, Baxter's works and the rest. Then I met John C. Wright, Hamilton, Reynolds, and I became a diehard Science boy that wanted to study Artificial Intelligence...now I'm rambling so thanks for the review and listening. Also, my friend request has been idling away for a while now...please add.
