The Ringworld Throne
- 382
- Pages
- about 7 h
- Reading time
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Our view
Readers already committed to Niven’s Ringworld are the audience for “The Ringworld Throne”, a direct sequel to “The Ringworld Engineers”. It is the third of four volumes, and what it offers is more time in a setting they know. Some readers find it slow to start, loosely plotted and peopled with characters they cannot warm to, and come away unsure whether to go on with the series.
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About the book
The Ringworld Throne is a science fiction novel by American writer Larry Niven, first published in 1996. It is the direct sequel to his previous work The Ringworld Engineers (1980). He wrote it as a replacement after being unable to finish his contracted novel The Ghost Ships, the sequel to The Integral Trees and The Smoke Ring.
Reading order · Ringworld series
Full order & progress →- RingworldStart here
7.77.7 / 10 - The Ringworld Engineers
7.57.5 / 10 - The Ringworld ThroneThis book
7.27.2 / 10 - Ringworld's Children
7.47.4 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 6.4 across 119 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 45% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.2 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 6.3 | 20 | 17% |
| Hardcover | 6.5 | 99 | 83% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Ringworld Throne?
It has 382 pages — shorter than 65% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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