• Registered: 2005-03-30
  • Posts: 272

Topic: Ringworld's Children (so very OT)

I finally got around to reading this today, and I'd like to take this opportunity to say:

1) If you haven't read it, but you read the rest of the series, read it immediately.  May be the best one yet.

2) If you haven't read the rest of the series, do so, then proceed with step one.

3) If you have read it, WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME TO READ IT EARLIER?!?  I'd have bought it hardcover if I'd known it was that good.

Damn fine read, and boy does it have some big concepts.  The only minor complaint I can come up with that nanotech is treated a *little* too much like magic...but that's a pretty common failing these days, and Niven makes it go down smooth.

Rich

  • Registered: 2005-03-31
  • Posts: 59

Re: Ringworld's Children (so very OT)

Is that the fourth book in the Ringworld series? I seem to recall having read three ringworld books in the past... and this is the first new one that I have heard of since then - did I miss any others?

If its the best one yet, I shall have to pick it up also...

Josh

  • Registered: 2005-03-30
  • Posts: 272

Re: Ringworld's Children (so very OT)

Yep, the series is:

Ringworld
Ringworld Engineers
Ringworld Throne
Ringworld's Children

I enjoyed the first and fourth most, but they were all good reads.  RC is an exceptionally fine example of Niven's most polished writing, and it's really quite amusing how he manages to subtly work "corrections" for earlier astrophysical bloopers into the story.  It's also refreshingly short, not one of the 600 page slabs that have become the industry standard.  A really good storyteller never uses more words than he needs to...

Rich