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RiaW #308: Ringworld by Larry Niven Review


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What would be really difficult for Ezra to understand for his #EasyMonth episode? How about a science fiction book about a two headed hand-faced horse who takes a giant cat, an emo dude, and the emo dude’s sex friend across the universe to a man-made planet thing for no good reason? Yep. That.

Ringworld is the incredibly sexist 1970s science fiction book about just such a journey. It’s complicated and boring, like Larry Niven had some ideas about space and wanted to describe them for a couple hundred pages but couldn’t think of a story to put around those descriptions.

Happy honeymoon, Chris and Tanya. We miss you.

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Read it and WeepBy Alex Falcone