Alcohol Is Gasoline: The Machine People distill a form of ethanol used both as fuel and as drink.Only a few remnants of the City Builders are left, now mostly reduced to living in isolated settlements within the crumbing ruins of their once-great cities, within a land mostly gone to wilderness and barbarism. After the End: The Ring once had a widespread civilization note which only covered about 12 degrees of the Ring, but given the size of the Ring itself it dwarfs civilizations that cover multiple star systems, but it fell - literally.It will slice apart any matter that touches it: trying to pick it up will cut off your fingers, and one character even runs into a trap made from it and gets his head cut off (fortunately he has a spare). A heap of it looks like smoke from a distance. The variable sword, a piece of monomolecular wire held taut by a stasis field.Unrelated to Discworld, though it was a major influence on Terry Pratchett's earlier book Strata.Ī Live-Action Adaptation of the first novel is currently in pre-production at Prime Video. It has been adapted into the following games: Ringworld RPG, Ringworld: Revenge of the Patriarch, and Return to Ringworld. The main series contains the following novels: The issues include how it was made, who could have built it, the various societies developed on it over time, and the problem of running it. Much of the work dealing with the Ringworld is about the difficulties of such a large world. Such a ring would have an inhabitable surface area equal to almost three million planets the size of the Earth. It spins to mimic gravity, and has walls a thousand miles high to keep the air from spilling off its sides.
The Ring is far enough out that the heat is comfortable for humans to live on. Imagine a giant ring, a million miles wide, with a radius of one Earth orbit and a circumference of some 600 million miles, orbiting around a star. An artifact.Īn epic science fiction series by Larry Niven set on the original Big Dumb Object. What is it?Ĭhiron: It is a star with a ring around it. Louis Wu: It looks like a star with a ring around it.
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