Larry Niven · series
Ringworld books in order
The Ringworld sequence within Known Space.
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Publication order
- 1 Ringworld
Book 1 · novel · 1970
The artefact is a circular ribbon of matter six hundred million miles long and ninety million miles in radius. Pierson's puppeteers, the aliens who discovered it, are understandably wary of encountering the builders of such an immense…
- 2 The Ringworld Engineers
Book 2 · novel · 1979
Conversion of hardcopy paperback originally owned bu Boston Public Library. ePub version lacks material that was originally on the first page of many chapters, resulting in numerous discontinuities in the story.
- 3 The Ringworld Throne
Book 3 · novel · 1996
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…
- 4 Ringworld's Children
Book 4 · novel · 2004
"The Ringworld: a landmark engineering achievement, a flat band three million times the surface of the Earth, encircling a distant star. Home to trillions of inhabitants, not all of whom are human, and host to amazing technological…
- 5 Fate of Worlds
Book 5 · novel · 2012
A cross-over conclusion to the Ringworld and Fleet of Worlds series finds the Puppeteers of the Fleet of Worlds targeted by rival war fleets after the disappearance of the Ringworld, prompting exiled Puppeteer Hindmost to draw on his…
