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Written by Larry Niven - Audio book performed by Patrick Cullen - Unabridged Science Fiction - 1 MP3 COMPACT DISC - 11 hours

Publisher, Blackstone Audio (April 2002)

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A modern science-fiction classic, Ringworld won the Hugo and Nebula Awards for best novel in 1970.

"I myself have dreamed up an intermediate step between Dyson Spheres and planets. build a ring 93 million miles in radius one Earth orbit which would make it 600 million miles long. If we have the mass of Jupiter to work with, and if we make it a million miles wide, we get a thickness of about a thousand meters. The Ringworld would thus be much sturdier than a Dyson sphere.

There are other advantages. We can spin it for gravity. A rotation on its axis of 770 miles/second would give the Ringworld one gravity outward. We wouldn't even have to roof it over. Put walls a thousand miles high at each rim, aimed at the sun, and very little of the air will leak over the edges." --Larry Niven

About the Author: LARRY NIVEN was born on April 30, 1938, in Los Angeles, California. In 1956 he entered the California Institute of Technology, only to flunk out a year and a half later after discovering a bookstore jammed with used science-fiction magazines. He graduated with a B.A. in mathematics (minor in psychology) from Washburn University, Kansas, in 1962, and completed one year of graduate work in mathematics at UCLA before dropping out to write. His first published story, The Coldest Place, appeared in the December 1964 issue of Worlds of If.