Louis Wu, Speaker for animals, and Hindmost (the former Puppeteer leader) return to the Ringworld and discover that the Ringworld was built by protectors – the adult form to which humans are larva. Most particularly, in response to the MIT students who chanted “The Ringworld is unstable”, Niven made restoring the stability of the Ringworld a major plot point. Niven wrote the Ringworld Engineers, partially in response to people who kept finding problems with the science in the first book. They have various adventures exploring the Ring before figuring out a way around the meteor defenses to get their ship home (except for Teela Brown who stays behind.) In the original Ringworld, Louis Wu and his companions (the ferocious kzin Speaker to Animals, the cowardly Pierson’s Puppeteer, and the lucky human Teela Brown) crash on the giant Ringworld – essentially all the planets in a solar system forged into one giant ring. Unfortunately, it depends on the reader having an understanding of the previous books, asĬhildren opens pretty much where Throne left off. Ringworld's Children never rises to the heights of Ringworld or even Engineers, it is much better than Throne. Ringworld is of course a classic in the field, the Ringworld Engineers is a very good sequel but not up the standards of the first book, and the Ringworld Throne, well, the less said the better. Until now, each Ringworld book has been a drop in quality from its immediate predecessor.
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