Larry Niven — Ringworld

Gollancz First edition, later printing. Trade softcover. Published London: Gollancz, 2005. 8vo. wrappers, 288pp. Fine. Book 1 of 4 - Ringworld Pierson''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 sun at its centre - the Ringworld. But the expedition goes disastrously wrong when the ship crashlands and its motley crew faces a trek across thousands of miles of the Ringworld''s surface. Fine No Jacket, As Issued 1st Edition 5th or later Printing London 8vo 288