Ringworld series

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 sequels:

1970: Ringworld
1980: The Ringworld Engineers
1996: The Ringworld Throne
2004: Ringworld's Children
2012: Fate of Worlds (by Niven and Edward M. Lerner)

Fate of Worlds is also a sequel to the four books of the Fleet of Worlds series, set in the same "Known Space" universe and all written by Niven and Edward M. Lerner:

The Ringworld series by Larry Niven

Known Space

Original novels	Ringworld The Ringworld Engineers The Ringworld Throne Ringworld's Children

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

Games based on the series	Ringworld RPG Ringworld: Revenge of the Patriarch Return to Ringworld

Characters	Nessus Teela Brown Louis Wu Speaker-to-Animals

Concepts	Rishathra Hominids of the Ringworld Fringe War Long Shot Fleet of Worlds Pierson's Puppeteers General Products

Bibliography by Larry Niven

Known Space

World of Ptavvs (1966) A Gift from Earth (1968) Neutron Star (1968) Protector (1973) Tales of Known Space (1975) Flatlander (1976) The Patchwork Girl (1986) Crashlander (1994)

Ringworld	Ringworld (1970) The Ringworld Engineers (1979) The Ringworld Throne (1996) Ringworld's Children (2004)

Man-Kzin Wars¹	Man-Kzin Wars X: The Wunder War (2003)

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

Written with
Jerry Pournelle

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

Moties³	The Mote in God's Eye (1974) The Gripping Hand (1993)

Heorot⁴	The Legacy of Heorot (1987) Beowulf's Children (1995) Destiny's Road (1997)

Dream Park⁴

Dream Park (1981)
The Descent of Anansi (1982)

The State

Co-authored novels

Other collections

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

Short stories

Essays

Collections by Niven or others
With Edward M. Lerner
Set in the CoDominium series
With Steven Barnes

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