The novel meticulously examines every aspect of First Contact, from the Moties' biology, society, and art, to the effects of the meeting on humanity's economics, politics, and religions.Ěnd all the while suspense builds as we watch the humans struggle toward the truth. This is the first collaboration between Niven and Pournelle, two masters of hard science fiction, and it combines Pournelle's interest in the military and sociology with Niven's talent for creating interesting, believable aliens. It seems the Moties have a dark problem, one they've been unable to solve in over a million years. The Moties are welcoming and kind, yet rather evasive about certain aspects of their society. In the Mote the humans find an ancient civilization-at least one million years old-that has always been bottled up in their cloistered solar system for lack of a star drive. The probe is traced to the Mote, an isolated star in a thick dust cloud, and an expedition is dispatched. No other intelligent beings have ever been encountered, not until a light sail probe enters a human system carrying a dead alien. His novel Ringworld won the 1970 Hugo Award for Best Novel, the 1970 Nebula Award for Best Novel, and the 1972 Ditmar, an Australian award for Best International Science Fiction.In the year 3016, the Second Empire of Man spans hundreds of star systems, thanks to the faster-than-light Alderson Drive. He won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1966 for 'Neutron Star' and in 1974 for 'The Hole Man.' The 1975 Hugo Award for Best Novelette was given to The Borderland of Sol. His first published story, 'The Coldest Place,' appeared in the December 1964 issue of Worlds of If. in mathematics (minor in psychology) from Washburn University, Kansas, in 1962, and completed one year of graduate work before he dropped out to write. In 1956, he entered the California Institute of Technology, only to flunk out a year and a half later after discovering a bookstore jammed with used science-fiction magazines. Why did these disparate individuals come together? How could they possibly function together? And where, in the name of anything sane, were they headed?Ībout the Author Larry Niven was born in 1938 in Los Angeles, California. And one of the most savage life-forms known in the galaxy. Speaker-To-Animals: kzin large, orange-furred, and carnivorous. Teela Brown: human a wide-eyed youngster with no allegiances, no experience, no abilities. Except that this particular puppeteer is insane.

Nessus: a trembling coward, a puppeteer with a built-in survival pattern of nonviolence. Seeking a challenge, and all too capable of handling it. Louis Wu: human and old bored with having lived too fully for far too many years.

Book Synopsis Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards for best novel Four travelers come to the ringworld.

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