Ringworld series

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The Ringworld series (1970–2012), by science fiction author Larry Niven, is a part of his Known Space set of stories. Its backdrop is the Ringworld, a giant artifact 600 million miles in circumference around a sun. The series is composed of five standalone science fiction novels, the original award-winning book and its four subsequent sequels:

1970: Ringworld
1979: The Ringworld Engineers
1996: The Ringworld Throne
2004: Ringworld's Children
2012: Fate of Worlds (by Niven and Edward M. Lerner)

Four prequels have been written, set in the same Ringworld universe:

2007: Fleet of Worlds (by Niven and Edward M. Lerner)
2008: Juggler of Worlds (by Niven and Edward M. Lerner)
2009: Destroyer of Worlds (by Niven and Edward M. Lerner)
2010: Betrayer of Worlds (by Niven and Edward M. Lerner)

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Known Space

Main series	Ringworld The Ringworld Engineers The Ringworld Throne Ringworld's Children Fate of Worlds

Prequel series	Fleet of Worlds (2007) Juggler of Worlds (2008) Destroyer of Worlds (2009) Betrayer of Worlds (2010)

Games	Ringworld RPG Ringworld: Revenge of the Patriarch Return to Ringworld

Characters	Nessus Hindmost Teela Brown Louis Wu Speaker-to-Animals/Chmeee

Concepts	Rishathra Hominids of the Ringworld Fringe War Long Shot Fleet of Worlds

Preceding Work Crashlander

Larry Niven

Novels
Short-story collections

Known Space

World of Ptavvs (1966) A Gift from Earth (1968) Neutron Star (1968 collection) The Shape of Space (1969 collection) Protector (1973) Tales of Known Space (1975 collection) Flatlander (1976 collection, originally The Long Arm of Gil Hamilton) The Patchwork Girl (1986) Crashlander (1994 omnibus)

Ringworld	Ringworld (1970) The Ringworld Engineers (1979) Guide to Larry Niven's Ringworld (1994, with Kevin Stein) The Ringworld Throne (1996) Ringworld's Children (2004)

Man-Kzin Wars¹	Man-Kzin Wars (1988) Man-Kzin Wars II (1989) Man-Kzin Wars III (1990) Man-Kzin Wars IV (1991) Man-Kzin Wars V (1992) Man-Kzin Wars VI (1994) Man-Kzin Wars VII (1995) Man-Kzin Wars VIII: Choosing Names (1998) Man-Kzin Wars IX (2002) Man-Kzin Wars X: The Wunder War (2003) Man-Kzin Wars XI (2005) Destiny's Forge (2007 novel) Man-Kzin Wars XII (2009) Man-Kzin Wars XIII (2012)

Fleet of Worlds²	Fleet of Worlds (2007) Juggler of Worlds (2008) Destroyer of Worlds (2009) Betrayer of Worlds (2010) Fate of Worlds (2012)

The Magic Goes
Away

The Warlock	Not Long before the End (1969) What Good Is a Glass Dagger? (1972) The Magic Goes Away (1978) The Magic May Return (1981 collection) More Magic (1984) The Time of the Warlock (1984)

Golden Road³	The Burning City (2000) Burning Tower (2005) Burning Mountain (in progress)

Written with
Jerry Pournelle

Inferno (1976) Lucifer's Hammer (1977) Oath of Fealty (1982) Footfall (1985) Escape from Hell (2009 sequel to Inferno)

Moties⁴	The Mote in God's Eye (1974) The Gripping Hand (1993, UK title The Moat around Murcheson's Eye) Outies (2010, by J. R. Pournelle)

Heorot^{3, 5}	The Legacy of Heorot (1987) Beowulf's Children (1995, UK title The Dragons of Heorot) Destiny's Road (1997, by Niven alone)

Dream Park⁵

Dream Park (1981)
The Barsoom Project (1989)
The California Voodoo Game (1992, UK title The Voodoo Game)
The Descent of Anansi (1982)
Achilles' Choice (1991)
Saturn's Race (2001)
The Moon Maze Game (2011)

The State

Other co-authored
novels

The Flying Sorcerers (1971, with David Gerrold)
Berserker Base (1984, with Poul Anderson / Edward Bryant / Stephen R. Donaldson / Fred Saberhagen / Connie Willis / Roger Zelazny)
Fallen Angels (1991, with Jerry Pournelle and Michael Flynn)
Rainbow Mars (1999, initially with Terry Pratchett)
Building Harlequin's Moon (2005, with Brenda Cooper)

Other collections

All the Myriad Ways (1971)
The Flight of the Horse (1973)
Inconstant Moon (1973)
A Hole in Space (1974)
Convergent Series (1979)
Niven's Laws (1984)
Limits (1985)
N-Space (1990)
Playgrounds of the Mind (1991)
Bridging the Galaxies (1993)
Scatterbrain (2003)
Larry Niven Short Stories Volume 1 (2003)
Larry Niven Short Stories Volume 2 (2003)
Larry Niven Short Stories Volume 3 (2003)
The Draco Tavern (2006)
Stars and Gods (2010)
The Best of Larry Niven (2010)

Adapted as comics

Death by Ecstasy (1991)
Green Lantern: Ganthet's Tale (1992, by John Byrne)
The Magic Goes Away (by Jan Duursema)
"Not Long before the End" (by Doug Moench and Vicente Alcazar)
"All the Myriad Ways" (by Howard Chaykin)

¹ Collections by Niven or others. ² With Edward M. Lerner. ³ With Jerry Pournelle. ⁴ Set in the CoDominium series. ⁵ With Steven Barnes.

Selected short stories and novellas

"At the Core" "Bordered in Black" "The Borderland of Sol" "Death by Ecstasy" "The Defenseless Dead" "Flash Crowd" "Flatlander" "Grendel" "The Handicapped" "The Hole Man" "Inconstant Moon" "The Jigsaw Man" "The Magic Goes Away" "Neutron Star" "Procrustes" "The Return of William Proxmire" "The Soft Weapon"

Essays

Niven's laws "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex" "The Theory and Practice of Time Travel"

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