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The author of the award-winning classic science fiction novel, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, on the ...

Larry Niven's Ringworld won him the Hugo and Nebula awards when it was published 55 years ago. As the New Scientist Book Club ...

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The work is published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. "I read 'Ringworld' and 'Ringworld Engineers' as a student, so I've long been fascinated by engineering on ...