Ringworld
Novel by Larry NivenWikipedia
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Oct 9, 2026
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And we must briefly do a roundup shout-out to the phenomenal honorable mentions rounding out the stack.
speaker_1HOST
Larry Niven's Ringworld.
AC WilsonHOST
Ursula K.
AC WilsonHOST
Le Guin's The Dispossessed, Harlan Ellison's I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream.
Ed BlalockHOST
And this is just because this is off the top of my head.
Ed BlalockHOST
But also in the Ringworld series, Niven came up with the idea of the laser flashlight.
Damian HarmonyHOST
Okay.
Ed BlalockHOST
And it is literally what it says on the tin, which in the 60s, this was really amazingly high future tech.
Joanna HaganHOST
He's very sweet.
Joanna HaganHOST
I did quickly, just fun little sidebar, because at one point he's reading Ringworld by Larry Niven, which we know was something Pratchett loved and was sort of Strata or Dark Side of the Sun.
Joanna HaganHOST
I keep mixing those two up.
Joanna HaganHOST
One of those was sort of as a parody of.
Joanna HaganHOST
I went on to the, because I've never actually read Ringworld.
Joanna HaganHOST
I really should at some point.
Joanna HaganHOST
But I went on the Wikipedia for it.
Joanna HaganHOST
Oh, I'm so
QuinnHOST
In the book To Look Windward, which is basically a sequel to Consider Phlebas, though they weren't published back to back, it mentions that by the 22nd century, there were about 31 trillion citizens of the culture scattered widely through the galaxy on ships, planets, but mainly orbitals.
QuinnHOST
Similar to, but not exactly the same as, the Ringworld in Larry Nevin's series.
QuinnHOST
The culture didn't really like to terraform planets because they were more interested in preserving things rather than destroying them.
QuinnHOST
The book's surface detail confirms that there are at least 50 billion citizens of the culture by the 29th century.