Way too much focus on Rishathra and too many characters to realistically follow. ' Disappointing third book in the Ringworld Series. The audiobookstore narration is engaging and fun, and moves the story along effortlessly. ' In Ringworld: Throne, we get a more in depth look at life on the Ringworld, and it's politics. Overall Performance: Narration Rating: Story Rating:.“Ringworld admirers will surely wish to investigate.” - Kirkus Reviews This third fictional voyage to the Ringworld…displays Niven’s deft hand at portraying aliens.” - Publishers Weekly “An honored SF writer returns to his best-known creation: the artificial world, built far from Earth by aliens over a half million years ago, in the form of a ring six hundred million miles in diameter, hosting an astonishing multitude of inhabitants and cultures. “Vampires gather, the Protectors interfere with other species, and someone is destroying incoming spacecraft, forcing Louis Wu to return to become Ringworld’s Central Protector…Highly recommended for SF collections.” - Library Journal “Another sequel to Ringworld is cause for celebration…Any addition to Niven’s famous series should attract plenty of readers.” - Booklist “Niven’s work has been an intriguing and consistent universe, and this book is the keystone of the arch… technique is wonderfully polished, his characters and their situations are nicely drawn…Wraps up (maybe) a corner of a very interesting universe.” - San Diego Union-Tribune “Readers who remember Ringworld from earlier encounters will no doubt relish the latest installment of the saga.” - New York Times Book Review I enjoy this book, but it's definitely not the best in the series.' Maybe it suffers from being the middle book, with very little change in the state of the protagonists from beginning to end. Maybe it's because of the sudden pullback on the consequences of Engineers. Maybe it's because we spend so much time following characters that are only tenuously linked to what has gone before. 'Rereading this book, it seems weaker than its siblings in the Ringworld series.

But who will sit on the Ringworld throne?

Now it looks as if the Ringworld itself needs a protector.

And the Ghouls have their own agenda-if anyone dares approach them to learn.Įach race on the Ringworld has always had its own protector. Incoming spacecraft are being destroyed before they can reach the Ringworld. Vampires are massing. Something is going on with the protectors. The human Louis Wu the puppeteer known as the Hindmost Acolyte, son of the Kzin called Chmeee: legendary beings brought together once again in the defense of the Ringworld. Come back to the Ringworld-the most astonishing feat of engineering ever encountered. A place of untold technological wonders, home to myriad humanoid races, and world of some of the most beloved science fiction stories ever written.

The ringworld throne