Ringworld by Larry Niven #literature From conundrums told entirely in

From conundrums told entirely in Seussian verse to Die Hard-inspired riddles

to a wintertime fireside feast complete with woodfired crispbread and condiments for your favourite cheeses

loss and desire – to a time when an impetuous young woman called Midori marches into his life and he has to choose between the future and the past

from Cologne to Santiago de Chile to Paris – reading

the films they watched

Ringworld by Larry Niven #literature From conundrums told entirely inPierson's puppeteers, strange, three legged, two headed aliens, have discovered an immense structure in a hitherto unexplored part of the universe. Frightened of meeting the builders of such a structure, the puppeteers set about assembling a team consisting of two humans, a puppeteer and a kzin, an alien not unlike an eight foot tall, red furred cat, to explore it. The artefact is a vast circular ribbon of matter, some 180 million miles across, with a