To create a day–night cycle and save plant life from frying, Niven envisioned a set of "shadow squares" around the sun at about Mercury's distance from Earth. The parts of Ringworld between the ...

"Ringworld's Children" is one part action and three parts thought-provoking exposition. That ratio was once common to science fiction. Niven, while not entirely an "old school" writer, was clearly ...

The Ringworld is a great gaudy intellectual toy. Readers are inclined to go on playing with it after they’ve finished the book. I approve completely: a person should go on thinking about a book ...

Book of Boba Fett episode 5 brings Star Wars to a new part of science fiction canon: The world of Larry Niven’s Ringworld. Move over Master Chief, your halo does not compare to The Mandalorian’s.

Culture editor Alison Flood rounds up the New Scientist Book Club’s thoughts on our latest read, the science fiction classic Ringworld by Larry Niven ...