Ringworld is a 1970 science fiction novel by Larry Niven, set in his Known Space universe and considered a classic of science fiction literature.
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10 Facts About Ringworld
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Ringworld won the Nebula Award in 1970, as well as both the Hugo Award and Locus Award in 1971.
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Ringworld meets Nessus, a Pierson's puppeteer, who offers him a mysterious job.
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The Ringworld has a habitable, flat inner surface, a breathable atmosphere and a temperature optimal for humans.
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Ringworld then takes the police station up to the summit of "Fist-of-God", the enormous mountain near their crash site.
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The mountain had not appeared on the Ringworld map, leading Louis to conclude that it is in fact the result of a meteoroid impact with the underside of the ring, which pushed the "mountain" up from the ring's floor and broke through.
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Opening chapter of the original paperback edition of Ringworld featured Louis Wu teleporting eastward around the Earth in order to extend his birthday.
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One major one was that the Ringworld, being a rigid structure, was not actually in orbit around the star it encircled and would eventually drift, ultimately colliding with its sun and disintegrating.
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Such a mini-Ringworld appears in Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett, Season 1, Episode 5.
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In 2017, Amazon announced that Ringworld was one of three science fiction series it was developing for its streaming service.
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