![]() The cultures of Ringworld don’t feel all that alien, mostly because all the species are hominid, but also because that does not appear to have been the focus of the narrative. The author tries to spice up a somewhat dry exploration story by introducing a few women here there, who apparently have nothing better to do then throw themselves at Louis the first chance they get. And then we have a stereotypical Pearson’s Puppeteer replacing Nessus. We have Speaker-to-animals, who, for all his aggression and pride in his species, ultimately follows Louis. ![]() We have Louis Wu, who appears to give more thoughts to the consequences of his actions this time round. We get the old characters back, they show some minor changes, but are more or less the same showing very little development throughout this book. From an engineering point of view, the explanations seem solid.Ĭharacter development, unfortunately, seems to stay stuck at book 1. The book resolves all the engineering issues it sets outs to resolve. We get to the bottom of some mysteries, which felt good. Not everything is left mysterious and unexplained. Of course given the size of the Ringworld, that bit is a sizable area. ![]() The good part of the book is that this time, we actually get to explore a bit more of the Ringworld. The story is told, it seems to fill in some of the ecological gaps and fix some engineering issues that had been pointed out from the first book. The book was decent, not bad, not terribly good, just somewhere in the middle. ![]()
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