But what’s really interesting is how Ringworld differs from Lost. Now, the cynics among you might think I’m comparing a classic 40-year-old book to a massively popular TV show that recently ...

Named for: Larry Niven's 1970 novel Ringworld and its sequels. Selected Science Fiction Portrayals: Besides those featured in Niven's novels, similar but smaller structures, called Halos ...

Dennis Antinori’s guide to Larry Niven’s Ringworld teems with information about its specs, but that’s not all. There’s also the equivalent of Google maps for Ringworld — it even lets you ...

The ringworld has become a common motif, a future base for humanity… “This is all a lot of nonsense of course,” says retired professor Freeman Dyson. It is Dyson who popularised the idea of ...

Larry Niven’s 1970 novel Ringworld is a beloved classic that received the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards. But science fiction author Rajan Khanna says the book has some major shortcomings for a ...

Larry Niven's novel Ringworld is a classic work in modern hard science fiction literature. The concept of a gigantic ring large enough to encompass a planetary orbit and hold its own atmosphere ...

In 1992, the award-winning Ringworld novels by sci-fi author Larry Niven became one such book series to receive the game treatment. Ringworld: Revenge of the Patriarch, the flagship title by then ...

The structure first appeared in science fiction canon half a century ago in Larry Niven’s 1970 novel Ringworld. When I interviewed Niven a couple of years ago about the novel, he explained that ...

A traditional laser battle isn’t rigorous enough for Niven. There’s a marvelous sequence in Ringworld in which he gives us a quick primer on how real-world laser combat would work. For example ...