Ringworld
I always wanted to read Ringworld by Larry Niven. I finally did it the other day. My only dissapointment is that I came to learn of it only through the video game which was partially inspired by it, Halo. I say that because I don’t generally play video games, and so I came to know of the book by somewhat random chance.
It’s quite an amazing idea really, to build a Ringworld around a sun. Though I think the mass requirements are a little prohibitive. But the book is full of traditional Star Trek style space adventures. Weird looking aliens, tech talk and ideas of massive proportion. Since what is space besides potential for objects of mind blowing size. All the recent sci fi productions, be they books or movies, have been leaning more toward the human component of futuristic fiction, which I praise and have even blogged about recently. Ringworld is just a reminder of a simpler time, and since it’s even better since it’s a whole series.