The alien appears similar to a two-headed ostrich with a single eye on each head. Suddenly, he is confronted by an alien Puppeteer, Nessus. We follow the human Louis Wu as he hops around the world via transport booths on his 200th birthday. This race sells us the secret of hyperdrive propulsion, resulting in the extermination of two-thirds of the Kzin warriors and the confiscation of two of their planets.įour hundred years later, the peace still reigns. Humanity would have been exterminated if not for a timely visit by another alien race, the Outsiders. The Kzin are bloodthirsty carnivores that look somewhat like large bipedal tigers. The book opens with four pages of panels depicting the human-Kzin space wars. This planet is in the form of a gigantic ring which goes entirely around its sun. If you have never read the novel, it deals with a ‘planet’ that has been geo-engineered by an ancient civilization using the entire resources of a solar system. The graphic novel covers the first half of the original book, and can be thought of like a visual ‘Cliffs Notes’ of Ringworld. All of the major plot points of Ringworld are depicted, although sometimes quite briefly. It arrives as a 5×7 soft cover version and can be read in an evening. This is a young adult black and white graphic novel or manga style edition of Larry Niven’s classic Ringworld. Title: Ringworld: The Graphic Novel, Part One
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