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Ringworld
Ringworld
Author: Larry Niven
?I myself have dreamed up an intermediate step between Dyson Spheres and planets. Build a ring 93 million miles in radius ? one Earth orbit- which would make it 600 million miles long . . . . ?There are other advantages. We can spin it for gravity. A rotation on its axis of 770 miles/second would give the Ringworld one gravity outward. . . ...  more »
ISBN: 320694
Publication Date: 12/1977
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Publisher: Ballentine Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
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One of the most imaginative writers creates one of the most imaginative worlds. The author says "I myself have dreamed up an intermediate step between a Dyson Sphere and a planet. Build a ring 93 million miles in radius--one Earth orbit which would make it 600 million miles long. If we have the mass of Jupiter to work with, and if we make it a million miles wide, we get a thickness of about a thousand meters. The Ringworld would thus be much sturdier than a Dyson sphere. The thing is roomy enough: three million times the area of the EArth. It will be some time before anyone complains of the crowding."
Meet the Pierson's Puppeteers, the Kzinti, the Pak hominids--meet Louis Wu who has lived so long he thinks he is becoming bored----Boy is Louis in for a shock!
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