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writegeist 's review for:
Ringworld
by Larry Niven
While the concept behind Ringworld (convert an entire solar system into an enormous ring that rotates around a sun at the distance of one AU) is amazing, it reminded me a lot of The Lord of the Rings, which also involved a lot of traveling (in this case, a lot of flying). It also reminded me of the amount of time the film makers took to ogle the Starship Enterprise in Star Trek: The Motion Picture. I do understand wanting to spend a good amount of time just flying around looking at this place, which evidently would hold the entire inhabitants of many over-populated Earths. Niven clearly spent some time creating this world, and he wanted us to know that. It does also have the scent of the beginning of a longer story (which it is). It would be interesting to see what Niven would have done if he'd written the story now a days; he might have created some stronger female characters and avoided flunking the Bechdel test.