The Ringworld Engineers Paperback

Great reading. If you don't think you would like sci-fi, You'll probably like this one...I'm a convert!!

The RIngworld and sequels is a classic, considered a must read in some circles. I'd avoided them sort of by accident due to simply being busy with other things when they came to mind in the past. Finally I bought the Kindle version of Ringworld and eventually found an afternoon to read it. It was OK, not great but really pretty OK for an old-timey SciFi book.Since it was on my mind, I immediately got this book, 'The Ringworld Engineers'. It was a fast read and sort of fun, but just partway through I started to see a lot of holes in the fabric of the tale. I clamped down like a pitbull and finished it, but I'm out, no more Ringworld for me. I don't want to spoilerize it but let's just say a lot of the details of the future worlds in Ringworld just have not aged well, and a lot of the suspension of disbelief points that have to be glossed over to explain why things get done the way they get done become difficult to overlook.The fascination with interspecies sex was pretty baffling and served no purpose that I could see. Hand waving it away as 'birth control' on a platform with essentially infinite living space just made it even more nonsensical. I think it had to have been thrown in there to appeal to 15 year old boys in the age before internet porn.After a while it was eye-roll after eye-roll as I waded to the end, which was also pretty unsatisfying.In summary, I wish I'd read the first book and stopped. I'm stopped now.Giving 4 stars as a gift, if it wasn't Niven I'd be hard pressed to give it 2.

A continuation of the Ringworld series. Fun read.

I really have enjoyed both the Fleet of Worlds and Ringworld series by Larry Niven. My biggest complaint is that there is no information on the order of the series. Both series are interconnected and a continuous story. Frankly, if each is taken as a separate story, I would not rate it as high. However if the series is read in order, the character development is excellent and the back stories that are hinted at in each succeeding book, are understood by the reader - making the stories much more enjoyable. However the advantage of this process for the author is that you end up purchasing all the books and then trying to figure out what the order should be by reading a chapter or 2. Granted that the Fleet of Worlds series do have indicators as to Book 1 through Book 5 . However Book 5 (Fate of Worlds) really requires reading all of the Ringworld series to be best appreciated.

I've enjoyed the Ringworld series since my first reading in the 70's and 80's. I have the paperback editions of all the Ringworld books. When it came time for a re-read I wanted them on my Kindle. Keep in mind that I've enjoyed all of the stories … My concern is the eBook transfer and lack of an edit job. I didn't notice issues with Ringworld but there were endless problems with Ringworld Engineers. I can't believe that any proof read or edit was done at all. The Kindle version is full of misspellings and missing punctuation. I feel sorry for anyone reading the book for the first time with this version. It was bad enough to kick me out of the story more than once and if I could I'd ask for my money back... Plus there is no Kindle version of the next book in the series - Ringworld Throne - but it looks like there is a Kindle release of the one after - Ringworld's Children. Given how poorly Ringworld Engineers was produced I'm not sure I'll invest in any others until the quality improves and the series is complete.

I have been in love the "Tales of Known Space" since I was a young girl. Niven actually built an entire world inside his stories, both large and small.But after listening to the Audible version of this book, I could barely get through even the sample of the book because listening to the narrator was a lot like biting on aluminum foil, or sliding down Olympus Mons by your fingernails with a ground made of chalkboard. So I decided that I could forgo the spoken version in lieu of own imagination, as disappointing a choice this was.However, I've never heard of this editing company before I saw this ebook, and, upon looking into it after being repeatedly insulted by such poor editorship, I looked online, on its "website," it honesty like it operates out of someone's basement.The reason I removed a star from this book is because of the fact that this ebook has the worst editing I've ever seen in my life! As I looked at the photos of this Mickey Mouse operation, it shows two people at cheap desks, and it's hard not to think that that they might be relatives of Mr. Niven who who received a "gimme" because of their close family ties, as the site is so cheaply made that's it's easy to believe that these two -- a teenager and his "Mom" perhaps? -- because no professional company would ever release such printed drivel and expect to remain in operation in the world of print. I wonder why Tor was not the printing company...The word "you" is the most battered, coming out as "yon," other words are either spelled incorrectly because of the normal location-based keyboard accidents, but for others, there simply is NO explanation for how any typist could have tapped most of these words into a line. And worst of all, some mistakes are SO incorrect that, unless you have a vocabulary that's extremely well versed in not just SciFi but in Known Space, you will likely end up not having the slightest idea what the writer is saying!If you can find this book from any OTHER editing company, I suggest you do so!

I had read these books many years ago, and I still find them exciting to read. Having the storyline and characters continue in this book is great. Read this book only after reading Ringworld. The first book much better lays out what this universe is abiut.

this is a nice book, it does more detail into technical things about the ring, alot more sexual first contacts, and some more general info about the ring and inhabitants. Its a nice addition and a good read. creative story and you never know where it will go next.The only drawbacks for me was that again some of the things are explained vaguely, and again more sex in this novel then the first. its a very "active" ring.

Not as good as Ringworld

The sequel to the wonderful Ringworld, 'Engineers' continues the adventures of the human Louis Wu, the Kzin Speaker to Animals (now named Chmeee), kidnapped and brought back to Ringworld by the erstwhile Hindmost of the puppeteers to try to nab Ringworld technology. Ringworld Engineers evokes the same sense of wonder as the first novel, providing greater detail (and also th creators) of the vast artefact.Highly recommended

Rien à redire sur le livre : il étend remarquablement bien l'histoire du premier tome, en répondant à de nombreuses questions techniques posées par les fans les plus aguerris de l'auteur, le tout dans un scénario bien ficelé. Malheureusement cette édition Kindle souffre de très nombreuses erreurs typographiques vraisemblablement dues à une numérisation trop hâtive : ponctuation manquante (points), mots écorchés (notamment les noms propres)... Ça nuit un peu au plaisir de lecture.

I loved the book its quality was good and had a good packing.