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![]() How would life on such a construction look like? Will it still have trees, mountains, seas, and lakes? What sort precautions do you need to take so that the Ringworld survives through the ages? How do you produce energy? How do you maintain a day-night cycle? How do you effectively leave and return to Ringworld? What happens when society finally collapses? All these questions and more are discussed in the book. If the ring is about as far away from the sun as Earth is, and the ring is wide enough, you get an area equivalent to a hundred thousand planets enough space for everybody. The main setting of Ringworld is actually quite interesting: an ancient, almost all powerful civilization has figured out a novel way to avoid real estate problems: take all the matter in the solar system and stretch it out in the form of a thin ring around the sun. Congratulations! You have just cooked “Ringworld”, by Larry Niven. ![]() ![]() Recipe: take about 200 grams of insightful ideas concerning civilization and space exploration, slice ’em and dice ’em, then mix in about 10 kilos of misogyny, extreme cherry-picking physics, poor character development, unrealistic behaviour, some more misogyny and a ridiculous historical explanation, and mix thoroughly until homogeneous. But I don’t think you should care, because this is a horrible book and you should not read it. ![]() ![]() ![]() You'll make it if you squint through the sex scene. It's really a lot of fun, and any SF fan who loved/s Battlestar Galactica (the 2004 iteration) and The Expanse owes it to themselves to try the first one out. The space opera part takes up ⅔ of the book. Plus it's FREE on Kindle just in time for 2017's #Booksgiving subversion of the classic consumerist holiday.Ī classic space opera with a father-and-son reunion that heals both men, a crappy demanding spouse whose selfish demands are his undoing, and two worthy mates find each other. ![]() ![]() It does all of these things justice, as I say in my blog review, which explains why I gave 4.5 stars to this first TAKING SHIELD novel. GYRFALCON puts a gay man at the center of a non-romantic story of military service, honor, and duty. #ReadingIsResistance to historical homophobia in SF going unchallenged now or in future. ![]() ![]() ![]() On the first day of term, she discovered that she was not alone on her way to school: making the same journey was a boy who lived in her neighborhood and who shared the same timetable. She fell in love for the first time when she was eleven, en route from her house to school. ![]() While she was waiting for her Prince Charming to appear, all she could do was dream. Her father was a travelling salesman, her mother a seamstress, and her hometown, in the interior of Brazil, had only one cinema, one nightclub and one bank, which was why Maria was always hoping that one day, without warning, her Prince Charming would arrive, sweep her off her feet and take her away with him so that they could conquer the world together. Like all prostitutes, she was born both innocent and a virgin, and, as an adolescent, she dreamed of meeting the man of her life (rich, handsome, intelligent), of getting married (in a wedding dress), having two children (who would grow up to be famous) and living in a lovely house (with a sea view). Once upon a time, there was a prostitute called Maria. How can I start a book with this apparent contradiction? But since, at every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss, let's keep that beginning. "Once upon a time" is how all the best children's stories begin and "prostitute" is a word for adults. ![]() |