When the crew completes their mission, they will be given the starship in which they travelled to the puppeteer home world it is orders of magnitude faster than any possessed by humans or Kzinti. Night is provided by an inner ring of shadow squares which are connected to each other by thin, ultra-strong wire. The Ringworld has a habitable, flat inner surface (equivalent in area to approximately three million Earths), a breathable atmosphere and a temperature optimal for humans. It rotates to provide artificial gravity 99.2% as strong as Earth's from centrifugal force. The Ringworld is about one million miles (1.6 million km) wide and approximately the diameter of Earth's orbit (which makes it about 584.3 million miles or 940.4 million km in circumference), encircling a sunlike star. On the puppeteer home world, they are told that the expedition's goal is to investigate the Ringworld, a gigantic artificial ring, to see if it poses any threat. Speaker-to-Animals (Speaker), who is a Kzin, and Teela Brown, a young human woman who becomes Louis's lover, also join the crew. He meets Nessus, a Pierson's puppeteer, who offers him a mysterious job. Despite his age, Louis is in perfect physical condition due to the longevity drug boosterspice. On planet Earth in 2850 AD, Louis Gridley Wu is celebrating his 200th birthday. Ringworld won the Nebula Award in 1970, as well as both the Hugo Award and Locus Award in 1971.
All the novels in the Ringworld series tie into numerous other books set in Known Space. Lerner, four prequels and a final sequel the five latter novels constitute the Fleet of Worlds series. Niven later added three sequel novels and then cowrote, with Edward M. Ringworld tells the story of Louis Wu and his companions on a mission to the Ringworld, a rotating wheel artificial world, an alien construct in space 186 million miles (299 million kilometres) in diameter. Ringworld is a 1970 science fiction novel by Larry Niven, set in his Known Space universe and considered a classic of science fiction literature.
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