The Ringworld series is a series of science fiction novels written by American author Larry Niven. It is part of his Known Space set of stories. Its backdrop is the Ringworld, a giant artifact 600 million miles in circumference around a star. The series is composed of four standalone science fiction novels, the original award-winning book and its three sequels:
1970: Ringworld
1980: The Ringworld Engineers
1996: The Ringworld Throne
2004: Ringworld's Children
The companion novels to the Ringworld series are set in the same "Known Space" universe and all written by Niven and Edward M. Lerner:
2007: Fleet of Worlds
2008: Juggler of Worlds
2009: Destroyer of Worlds
2010: Betrayer of Worlds
2012: Fate of Worlds
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The Ringworld series by Larry Niven
Known Space
Original novels
Ringworld
The Ringworld Engineers
The Ringworld Throne
Ringworld's Children
Companion novels
Fleet of Worlds (2007)
Juggler of Worlds (2008)
Destroyer of Worlds (2009)
Betrayer of Worlds (2010)
Fate of Worlds (2012)
Games based on the series
Ringworld RPG
Ringworld: Revenge of the Patriarch
Return to Ringworld
Concepts
Long Shot
Kzin
Pierson's Puppeteers
Characters
Louis Wu
Beowulf Shaeffer
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Bibliography of Larry Niven
Known Space
World of Ptavvs (1966)
A Gift from Earth (1968)
Neutron Star (1968)
Protector (1973)
Tales of Known Space (1975)
Flatlander (1976)
The Patchwork Girl (1986)
Crashlander (1994)
Ringworld
Ringworld (1970)
The Ringworld Engineers (1979)
The Ringworld Throne (1996)
Ringworld's Children (2004)
Man-Kzin Wars1
Fleet of Worlds2
Fleet of Worlds (2007)
Juggler of Worlds (2008)
Destroyer of Worlds (2009)
Betrayer of Worlds (2010)
Fate of Worlds (2012)
The Magic Goes Away
The Magic Goes Away (1976)
The Magic May Return (1981)
The Burning City (2000)
Burning Tower (2005)
The Seascape Tattoo (2016)
Written with Jerry Pournelle
Inferno (1976)
Lucifer's Hammer (1977)
Oath of Fealty (1981)
Footfall (1985)
Escape from Hell (2009)
Moties3
The Mote in God's Eye (1974)
The Gripping Hand (1993)
Heorot4
The Legacy of Heorot (1987)
Beowulf's Children (1995)
Destiny's Road (1997)
Starborn & Godsons (2020)
Dream Park4
Dream Park (1981)
The Barsoom Project (1989)
The California Voodoo Game (1992)
The Moon Maze Game (2011)
The State
A World Out of Time (1976)
The Integral Trees (1984)
The Smoke Ring (1987)
Co-authored novels
The Flying Sorcerers (1971)
The Descent of Anansi (1982)
Fallen Angels (1991)
Building Harlequin's Moon (2005)
Bowl of Heaven (2012)
Other collections
All the Myriad Ways (1971)
The Flight of the Horse (1973)
Inconstant Moon (1973)
A Hole in Space (1974)
Convergent Series (1979)
Limits (1985)
N-Space (1990)
Playgrounds of the Mind (1991)
Bridging the Galaxies (1993)
Rainbow Mars (1999)
Scatterbrain (2003)
The Draco Tavern (2006)
Stars and Gods (2010)
The Best of Larry Niven (2010)
Short stories
"At the Core"
"The Borderland of Sol"
"Death by Ecstasy"
"The Defenseless Dead"
"Flash Crowd"
"Flatlander"
"Grendel"
"The Handicapped"
"The Hole Man"
"The Jigsaw Man"
"The Magic Goes Away"
"Neutron Star"
"Procrustes"
"The Return of William Proxmire"
"The Soft Weapon"
"What Good Is A Glass Dagger?"
Essays
Niven's laws
"Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex"
TV episodes written
"The Slaver Weapon" (Star Trek: The Animated Series)
1970: Ringworld 1980: The Ringworld Engineers 1996: The Ringworld Throne 2004: Ringworld's Children The companion novels to the Ringworldseries are set...
constitute the Fleet of Worlds series. All the novels in the Ringworldseries tie into numerous other books set in Known Space. Ringworld won the Nebula Award in...
The Ringworld Engineers is a 1979 science fiction novel by American writer Larry Niven. It is the first sequel to Niven's Ringworld and was nominated...
meets a Ringworld native called Seeker, and decides to remain with him on the Ringworld while the remainder of the crew departs. In The Ringworld Engineers...
in the Ringworldseries of books, written by Larry Niven. Louis Wu was born in 2650 to Carlos Wu and Sharrol Janss. When he appears in Ringworld, Louis...
The Ringworld Throne is a science fiction novel by American writer Larry Niven, first published in 1996. It is the direct sequel to his previous work...
April 30, 1938) is an American science fiction writer. His 1970 novel Ringworld won the Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. With Jerry Pournelle he...
the actual rosettes. In Larry Niven's novel Fleet of Worlds in the Ringworldseries, the Puppeteers' eponymous "Fleet of Worlds" is arranged in such a...
orbit of Mars or Jupiter. A stellaser is a star-powered laser. In the Ringworldseries by Larry Niven, a ring a million miles wide is built and spun (to simulate...
Guide to Larry Niven's Ringworld (1994, with Kevin Stein) The Ringworld Throne (1996) Ringworld's Children (2004) Worlds series (with Edward M. Lerner)...
of Worlds series, itself a subset of Niven's Known Space series. Fate of Worlds opens as Ringworld's Children (part of the Ringworldseries) closes, decades...
nuclear missiles. The two authors were Larry Niven, the author of the Ringworldseries, and Jerry Pournelle. Along with like-minded colleagues, they formed...
Long Shot (TV series), a 1959 Canadian current affairs television series Long Shot (Niven), a spacecraft from Larry Niven's Ringworldseries "Long Shot"...
video game franchises in the world, and draws influences from the Ringworldseries and military sci-fi. Sci-fi games often influence real-world engineers...
known as the Banished, on the Forerunner ringworld Zeta Halo. Unlike previous mainline entries in the series, the multiplayer portion of the game is free-to-play...
Stories in the Known Space series include events and places outside of the region called "Known Space" such as the Ringworld, the Pierson's Puppeteers'...
drinks, popcorn, candy, and other refreshments. Theater Nippon presents a series of classic and modern anime with free drinks and candy. Members of Convergence...
Worlds (2010) Fate of Worlds: Return from the Ringworld (2012) The first four novels are prequels to Ringworld. The last one is a sequel. Niven, Larry; Lerner...
a significant role in Niven's Hugo and Nebula award-winning Ringworld (1970) and Ringworld Engineers (1980), giving considerably more background on the...
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