Ringworld: A Novel

Ringworld: A Novel

<b>Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards for best novel</b><br><br>Four travelers come to the ringworld. . . <br><br><b>Louis Wu:</b> human and old; bored with having lived too fully for far too many years. Seeking a challenge, and all too capable of handling it.<br><br><b>Nessus:</b> a trembling coward, a puppeteer with a built-in survival pattern of nonviolence. Except that this particular puppeteer is insane.<br><br><b>Teela Brown:</b> human; a wide-eyed youngster with no allegiances, no experience, no abilities. And all the luck in the world.<br><br><b>Speaker-To-Animals:</b> kzin; large, orange-furred, and carnivorous. And one of the most savage life-forms known in the galaxy.<br><br>Why did these disparate individuals come together? How could they possibly function together? <br><br>And where, in the name of anything sane, were they headed?