Ringworld was a beloved classic that received the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards. The book has some major flaws according to the author.
The novel is basically two thought experiments that are sandwiched together.
Alan Taylor is slated to direct the pilot for Ringworld, which is being adapted for television by Akiva Goldsman. If certain changes are made to the source material, Mercurio D. Rivera thinks Ringworld could be a great show. That will be fixed. The setting will be amazing. They need to come up with a better plot.
One of the main elements of Ringworld is the idea that one of the characters, Teela Brown, has been bred to be lucky.
The show will have to portray a two-headed, three-legged alien called a "Puppeteers", which is a challenge according to science fiction author, Abby Goldsmith.
You can listen to the entire interview with Rajan Khanna, Mercurio D. Rivera, and Abby Goldsmith. Check out the highlights from the discussion.
David Barr Kirtley is on the known space universe.
I was into it when I first read it. When I was a kid, I read books like The Man-Kzin Wars, which have a lot of references in the early chapters. One of my favorite science fiction stories is called Neutron Star and it has a character named Beowulf who is an adventurer. I remember reading that story when I was a kid, and it was called "At the Core", and it was about a man who flies to the center of the universe and reports that the universe is exploding.
Mercurio D. Rivera is a world-building expert.
The beginning chapters are strong. It is a master class in world-building. The book is called Ringworld, and later on he creates a world, but in the first few chapters he does it through the lens of our main character's 200th birthday party. He is using the transfer booths to celebrate all over the world, and that is a great way to show us the future. All cultures have been sanded down because of the transfer booths. Is this homogeneity that exists that has created this, at least in Louis Wu? I thought that was brilliant.
Goldsmith was on Teela Brown.
Teela is not all that lucky. It is something that is told a lot but is rarely shown. She ends up with a man who resents and fears her, who doesn't mourn her when he thinks she's dead, and a barbarian who treats her like a piece of meat. She hits her head, gets mobbed, and has to be rescued. Louis argues that part of her luck factor is that she is not all that lucky and that bad things can make her grow up. But to me that is his own fear. He is afraid of a woman who is smarter than him. He is a very unreliable narrator.
There are female characters.
There are two female characters in this book. One is infantilized and naive to the point of idiocy, and the other is a whore. Why should that matter if they are sexually free? That blew my mind, because this whole supposedly free sex future becomes very conservative and based on traditional gender norms. They talked in the beginning about how they could change their appearance and I was confused. What is going on here?
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