How an Earth-born human got to be that old, and how he found himself in the position of savior for this inalterably alien world is the story told in the three previous novels. Louis Wu is a bit more than 200 years old, and he has been on the Ringworld for a while, spending most of his time trying to save it. If you do not understand that sentence, you're in trouble. "Louis Wu woke aflame with new life, under a coffin lid." He launches into the story from the first paragraph and never looks back: The author invests no time in bringing the reader up to speed. If you want to go along for the ride, however, you need to be prepared. Niven makes another return visit to his most famous - and most intriguing - literary invention in "Ringworld's Children," the fourth in the series. It leapt from the imagination of writer Larry Niven nearly 25 years ago in the novel "Ringworld." It has been out there ever since, an object of fascination for science fiction fans, engineers, biologists - anyone, it seems, who has ever heard about it. It is an artificial world, constructed as an enormous ring, 600 million miles in circumference, occupying the entire orbit of an Earth-like planet. (CNN) - One of the most intriguing places in the universe doesn't actually exist.
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