--- product_id: 64901930 title: "Ringworld" brand: "larry niventom parkerblackstone audio, inc." price: "₹ 416" currency: INR in_stock: true reviews_count: 10 url: https://www.desertcart.in/products/64901930-ringworld store_origin: IN region: India --- # Ringworld **Brand:** larry niventom parkerblackstone audio, inc. **Price:** ₹ 416 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Ringworld by larry niventom parkerblackstone audio, inc. - **How much does it cost?** ₹ 416 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.in](https://www.desertcart.in/products/64901930-ringworld) ## Best For - larry niventom parkerblackstone audio, inc. enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted larry niventom parkerblackstone audio, inc. brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Ringworld ## Images ![Ringworld - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81pjJ-qEwuL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Revisiting a classic *by R***D on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 19, 2023* Great read that holds up well. Ringworld is a classic of science fiction and some of it is a bit dated as it was written in 1970, it is still a tale well told of traveling to and exploring a hypothetical structure around a star. ### ⭐ Dull dull and dull *by D***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 13, 2008* I did not choose to read this book; a client is reading it, and I need to keep pace. I figured it won a Hugo so how bad could it be? I would never have guessed. Other posts have really said it all: the characters are cardboard and so is the dialogue. Often I could not tell (even after re-reading) who was speaking, but - honestly - it did not make the slightest difference. As for the plot - there was none. A "puppeteer" - a creature with two heads not seen by human in many years - chooses two humans and a semi-savage cat-like creature (by far the most interesting character, partly because of its schizoid presentation - sometimes chasing rabbits to guzzle them down leaving blood all over its face, sometimes perfectly reasonable.) The two humans are a 200 year old man of uncertain occupation and a 20 year old very beautiful (of course) girl. Their goal - to reach the Ringworld - an artificial star-circling construction millions of miles in diameter which the puppeteers have stumbled upon. They want more knowledge of it because it stands in the track of their inter-galactic migration to escape the effects of a sort of smaller Big Bang which will come their way (and Earth's) in 20,000 years. However, by nature puppeteers are extremely fearful, even though they have been completely manipulating both the human and kzin (cat-like) races for centuries. So to deal with this extremely important matter they rely on one of their species whom they regard as on the edge of madness, two humans - one bored out of his skull (Louis) and the other with the depth of a pot-hole (Teela - she has been chosen because she is "lucky" (no -really) butshe only comes along because she is in love with Louis although they have about as much in common as Queen Elizabeth and I) - and Speaker (the cat-like creature) who would half the time be ready to tear the throats out of his companions. (And I don't blame him; if I had to live with such boring creatures who do little but prattle about things that they understand (if at all) badly, I'd want to off them, too.) Anyway, they zoom off in a super spaceship that will be the reward provided by the puppeteer if the mission is successful (though at what is never quite clear.) At about page 250 or so, it occurs to Louis that their is a reason that the puppeteers are thus named - they are master manipulators. This was a question I asked myself on page 3, as would any normal person. Anyway, after a long and boring voyage, they more or less crash into Ringworld, and they have to find someone or something to help them get their ship moving again. (Heard this plot before?) So they travel hundreds of thousands of miles in little ships, at one point idiotically deciding to go straight through the most gigantic possible storm rather than going around it. They discover the inhabitants of Ringworld are humans - rather unlikely as they evolved thousands of light years from earth. They have regressed from being highly civilized and technologically advanced because (our foursome theorizes)some self-generating space neo-bacteria (which does not trouble the voyagers) made them sick, and their flying cities (no kidding - right out of Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe) faw down and go boom, destroying the cities below them. Some of the civilized people who were away return much later, but all but one of them either become idiots (no kidding) or more or less die of boredom. The one who remains - a sort of cosmic super-whore (no kidding) named Prill - lives in a flying city/police station that was luckily self powered, pretends to be a god to the natives who provide her with food. The ships of our intrepid four out of all the millions of square miles available manage to fly into the police station's equivalent of a drunk drivers holding tank - their ships immobilized within an enormous space. Thus, they have accidentally found (presumably) the only civilized being left, Prill, who eventually allows the three of them (Teela has disappeared though her ship is still there, most likely dead - but we know better) into her city, just before they die of hunger and thirst. (Louis's main complaint since the crash of their ship is that he can't get any coffee. Deep, man.) Anyway, they continue to blather and prattle about how to get their ship going again. Louis figures out a way, though he does not explain it to anyone. It involves getting some wire that had been used by the civilized ringworlders to hold in place vast black plates far, far above the ringworld to provide day and night - a good thing since killer sunflowers that function like gigantic ray-guns (I do not joke) have evolved and overrun millions of square miles over which the four must fly, but only at night when the sunflowers don't see them. The wire was broken when the spaceship had flown into it, millions of miles of wire falling to the ground. So, to ground our party must go. Teela shows up with one of the uncivilized ringworlders, a muscle-bound hero with a large sword (get it?) He is called Seeker because he is on a quest to reach the giant arc - a kind of visual illusion. Teela who now loves Seeker, despite the fact that he is somewhat of a moron, does not disenchant him. She no longer has any feelings for Louis. Snap, just like that. Anyway, getting the wire involves a battle with the local groundling natives who attack them en masse because - because they do. The puppeteer loses one of his heads, but Teela makes a tourniquet and he is brought back to the flying police station, where his medical kit automatically takes over and keeps him alive until he can get back to the ship where he has a supply of other heads. (Cool. I liked the same idea in one of the OZ books I read when I was eight.) Teela and Seeker elect to return to the ground and stay on Ringworld - the author implies heavily that they will regenerate the civilization. Anyway, after a longish and tedious journey, they find the crashed ship. Louis uses the flying police station, one of the small individual ships held by it and the wire to drag their spaceship up to the top of an enormous, thousands of miles high mountain called the Fist of God (for no particular reason.) Louis has correctly surmised that it is a kind of vent into space, too high for the Ringworld to lose its atmosphere, and our heroes tumble out into space pulling the ship to which they will return with them. Anyway, the story just stops. Puppeteer will apparently go home and be allowed to mate with his leader, Prill and Louis have "the start of a beautiful friendship" and Speaker realizes that he does not want to bring his civilization either the truth about the puppeteer manipulation of their evolution or the plans for the supership because it will just cause his kind to become enraged and attack the puppeteers and be destroyed. What the puppeteers will do is unclear because the material out of which Ringworld is made is impervious to the radiations that are on the way. Humans will use the new supership to develop a mass migration to another part of space or they won't. Speaker will have to do some fast talking one would guess. Nothing is resolved. Anyway, many of the other reviews have spoken of the author's bad writing getting in the way of his interesting ideas. As far as I'm concerned, the ideas are even lamer than the writing. What I have not told you is that (I swear) it is Teela's "luck" that controls all that happens. You see, for five generations her ancestors have won the Earth lottery that allows people to have extra children. Thus, (I hate to tell you) she is genetically lucky, luck said to be a kind of power than an individual has or does not have. This makes about as much sense mathematically or in common sense as George Bush's foreign policy, well maybe a little bit more. The book is filled with "Big Ideas" that are "beyond"/in contradiction to anything we now know about physics, math, psychology or most anything else. It is filled with what Woody Allen once called "heaviosity." Anyway, most of science fiction has always been about a certain kind of wish fulfillment for power. Just think: you could have luck and control everything. Most of the good or great science fiction tamps down on this tendency or at least manages to write about it in exciting, vivid ways. Neither is true here. This is the bad stuff, popular but bad. Badly written, ill-conceived and just downright dull. (As Mr. Monk would say, "Of course I could be wrong, but I don't think so.") ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ great book *by A***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 1, 2023* I’ve read this book a few times over the years and it is still an awesome read.One of Nivens best --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.in/products/64901930-ringworld](https://www.desertcart.in/products/64901930-ringworld) --- *Product available on Desertcart India* *Store origin: IN* *Last updated: 2026-04-24*