Recruited by the Puppeteer Nessus, Louis is joined by another human, a young woman called Teela Brown, and a cat-shaped alien called Speaker-To-Animals to trial new technology developed by the Puppeteers, which vastly reduces the time spent travelling through space, and explore the new world. Still in perfect health, thanks to a drug called boosterspice, he has friends all over the world, but is bored. On Earth it is the year 2850 and Louis is celebrating his 200th birthday. Who created the ring nobody knows, but an alien race known as Puppeteers (a tri-legged organism with two heads), threatened by its existence, want to know more about it and send a small team of recruits off to explore and possibly make contact with whatever lives there now. Ringworld starts off as nothing more than a brilliant blue eclipse, off in the deep reaches of space a mysterious, ancient structure one million miles wide and 600 million miles in circumference.
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