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Loading... Ringworld Throne (original 1996; edition 1997)by Larry Niven
Work detailsThe Ringworld Throne by Larry Niven (1996)
None.  divinenanny | Apr 7, 2012 |  Enjoyable, but not as good as the first volume (  )1  willowcove | Sep 1, 2010 | A return to the Ringworld after a long writing delay. At the start, the Ringworld denizens have to deal with vampires of a sort. Yep, whacky. Later on, Louis Wu and our puppeteer friend have some of the same work to do, as he and Speaker To Animals' son are taken captive by a vampire Pak Protector. They end up involved in a Protector conflict, vamps vs the others. In general though, the usual suspects aren't really the main focus of the book, it is the Pak struggle that occupies this position. http://notfreesf.blogspot.com/2007/01/ringworld-throne-larry-niven.html ( ) bluetyson | Jan 29, 2007 | It's Niven, but it's not remotely one of Niven's better works. The story is readable and interesting, but not nearly so much as the original "Ringworld". ( )1 argyriou | May 4, 2006 |
 Readers who remember Ringworld from earlier encounters will no doubt relish the latest installment of the saga.
Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0345412966, Mass Market Paperback)In Ringworld and Ringworld Engineers Larry Niven created Known Space, a universe in the distant future with a distinctive and complicated history. The center of this universe is Ringworld, an expansive hoop-shaped relic 1 million miles across and 600 million miles in circumference that is home to some 30 trillion diverse inhabitants. As in his past novels, Niven's characters in The Ringworld Throne spend their time unraveling the complex problems posed by their society.(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 04 Jan 2013 08:58:12 -0500) In the twenty-ninth century, Louis Wu, a 200-years-young adventurer, became one of the first humans from Known Space to set foot on the Ringworld, and his exploits there became legends among many of the native races. During Louis Wu's second sojourn on the Ringworld, he was able to save it from total destruction... but several hundred million people died anyway, and that was a mighty weight on one man's conscience. But odd events on the Ringworld would require Louis Wu's attention once again: Vampires were gathering in untold numbers; Protectors, immensely powerful beings dedicated to safeguarding their own bloodlines above all else, were interfering with species not their own and with each other. If the Ringworld was to remain intact, it was going to need one central Protector of its own. But who would sit on the Ringworld Throne?...… (more) (summary from another edition) |
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I don't know if it was my mood while reading, or if it was the book itself. I am guessing a bit of both, but the book was pretty confusing to me. I still don't know what the main vampire infestation has to do with the story of the protectors. I couldn't follow half of the things that were happening with Louis, the protectors, the old protectors, Teela, the people from Earth, Ringworld. I felt it was all too much, all was stuffed in this book to give the reader the feeling that he/she is back in the world of Ringworld. It was all a bit disappointing, so three out of four stars from me. (