Ringworld's Children: 4 (Ringworld 4)

Blending awe-inspiring science with non-stop action and fun Ringworlds Children the fourth installment of the multiple award-winning saga is the perfect introduction for readers new to this New York Times bestselling series and long-time fans of Larry Nivens Ringworld.. Welcome to a world like no other.. The Ringworld: a landmark engineering achievement a flat band 3 million times the surface area of Earth encircling a distant star. Home to trillions of inhabitants not all of which are human and host to amazing technological wonders the Ringworld is unique in all of the universe.. Explorer Louis Wu an Earth-born human who was part of the first expedition to Ringworld becomes enmeshed in interplanetary and interspecies intrigue as war and a powerful new weapon threaten to tear the Ringworld apart forever. Now the future of Ringworld lies in the actions of its children: Tunesmith the Ghould protector; Acolyte the exiled son of Speaker-to-Animals and Wembleth a strange Ringworld native with a mysterious past. All must play a dangerous game in order to save Ringworlds population and the stability of Ringworld itself.