Post your SF reading journal here if you read one of the following books: Neuromancer, by William Gibson; Ringworld, by Larry Niven; Gateway, by Frederick Pohl; Beggars in Spain, by Nancy Kress.
So far, in this book, a few things have happened. First though, let me start with a little plot overview. Four travelers go to a distant planet or world that is in the shape of a ring surrounding a star. this world is extremely advanced in its technology and development. The leader of the expedition is Nessus, a member of a species called Pierson's Puppeteer. These beings descended from herda animals and are the most technologically advanced in space. these beings are also very cowardly and selfish, willing to protect themselves and themselves only in any sort of danger- simple or disastrous. Nessus is a certain "breed" of Puppeteer that is brave-- resulting from a mental illness such as manic depression. Nessus is sent to explore the ringworld with a team, to see if it should be considered a threat to his species. Nessus, along with Loius Wu, Kzin, and Teela embark on the journey reasonably quickly after Nessus has done his recruiting. Soon after they are forced to crash land on the ringworld because of its shields and are stranded there.
Ben K -- This is a good overview of the first part of the book. However, because I've already read the book, I'm more interested in seeing your reactions to it in the next couple of posts.
This book is interesting, yet strange. Nessus is somehwhat of a fearless leader and often sends his followers into places they shouldn't. I'm not all for this. Louis and the others have agreed to help, but being thrown into dangerous situations by a leader is not often a way to keep support of the leader. I'm curious to see if this will produce any problems in the future.
There haven't been as many problems as i thought. What is interesting though is all the problems they seem to face and get themselves out of. They are there to simply discover some things about the ringworld and its society, yet they find roadblocks along every path they take. Nessus does do a fine job as the ringleader as well.
This book isn't bad. I thought Niven did a pretty good job making the "ringworld" as realistic as possible. However, some new inventions were kinda nuts. He liked to use drugs like booster spice and the tasp, which was kind of a drug but more just a pleasure piece. i thought the characters were cool and the technology was also well developed and supported. Ringworld is a very technologically advanced society and i thought it was cool to read what our universe may be like someday.
Ben K -- Your last three posts gave some more definite comments about the book. I'd still like to see more comments (you were suppposed to do 10 statements for each section). The final post made a couple of good points about the book as a whole.
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So far, in this book, a few things have happened. First though, let me start with a little plot overview. Four travelers go to a distant planet or world that is in the shape of a ring surrounding a star. this world is extremely advanced in its technology and development. The leader of the expedition is Nessus, a member of a species called Pierson's Puppeteer. These beings descended from herda animals and are the most technologically advanced in space. these beings are also very cowardly and selfish, willing to protect themselves and themselves only in any sort of danger- simple or disastrous. Nessus is a certain "breed" of Puppeteer that is brave-- resulting from a mental illness such as manic depression. Nessus is sent to explore the ringworld with a team, to see if it should be considered a threat to his species. Nessus, along with Loius Wu, Kzin, and Teela embark on the journey reasonably quickly after Nessus has done his recruiting. Soon after they are forced to crash land on the ringworld because of its shields and are stranded there.
Ben K --
This is a good overview of the first part of the book. However, because I've already read the book, I'm more interested in seeing your reactions to it in the next couple of posts.
This book is interesting, yet strange. Nessus is somehwhat of a fearless leader and often sends his followers into places they shouldn't. I'm not all for this. Louis and the others have agreed to help, but being thrown into dangerous situations by a leader is not often a way to keep support of the leader. I'm curious to see if this will produce any problems in the future.
There haven't been as many problems as i thought. What is interesting though is all the problems they seem to face and get themselves out of. They are there to simply discover some things about the ringworld and its society, yet they find roadblocks along every path they take. Nessus does do a fine job as the ringleader as well.
This book isn't bad. I thought Niven did a pretty good job making the "ringworld" as realistic as possible. However, some new inventions were kinda nuts. He liked to use drugs like booster spice and the tasp, which was kind of a drug but more just a pleasure piece. i thought the characters were cool and the technology was also well developed and supported. Ringworld is a very technologically advanced society and i thought it was cool to read what our universe may be like someday.
Ben K --
Your last three posts gave some more definite comments about the book. I'd still like to see more comments (you were suppposed to do 10 statements for each section). The final post made a couple of good points about the book as a whole.
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