Ringworld: A NovelWinner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards for best novel Four travelers come to the ringworld. . .� Louis Wu: human and old; bored with having lived too fully for far too many years. Seeking a challenge, and all too capable of handling it. Nessus:�a trembling coward, a puppeteer with a built-in survival pattern of nonviolence. Except that this particular puppeteer is insane. Teela Brown:�human; a wide-eyed youngster with no allegiances, no experience, no abilities. And all the luck in the world. Speaker-To-Animals:�kzin; large, orange-furred, and carnivorous. And one of the most savage life-forms known in the galaxy. Why did these disparate individuals come together? How could they possibly function together?� And where, in the name of anything sane, were they headed? |
Contents
LOUIS WU | 1 |
AND HIS MOTLEY CREW | 15 |
TEELA BROWN | 30 |
SPEAKERTOANIMALS | 46 |
ROSETTE | 58 |
CHRISTMAS RIBBON | 73 |
STEPPING DISCS | 86 |
RINGWORLD | 99 |
INTERLUDE WITH SUNFLOWERS | 190 |
DREAMCASTLE | 204 |
THE MAP ROOM | 216 |
THE EYE OF THE STORM | 232 |
THE PERILS OF TEELA BROWN | 246 |
IN THE TRAP | 260 |
MEAT | 274 |
THE GIRL FROM BEYOND THE EDGE | 284 |
SHADOW SQUARES | 116 |
THE RING FLOOR | 133 |
THE ARCH OF HEAVEN | 148 |
FISTOFGOD | 160 |
STARSEED LURE | 176 |
SEEKER | 299 |
THE GOD GAMBIT | 315 |
FISTOFGOD | 330 |
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