Definitely not Ring World.  It was EON!  The plot was, a huge asteroid
appears in orbit round earth inhabited by evolved humans from the future who
have poked a hole in the space-time-thingy to make an infintely long tube!
Very good it was too!  cant quite remember the chaps name.



"Tyler Eaves" <tyl### [at] NOSPAMml1net> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 17:51:34 +0100, Marc Roth wrote:
>
> > Felbrigg wrote:
> >> Nice!
> >>
> >> Have you ever tried "World in a Tube".  In a book called "EON", in
contained
> >> a huge endless Tube with the world wrapped around the Inside along in
> >> length, and a shimmering (banded) light source running along the centre
of
> >> the tube.
> >>
> >> It would be an intresting excercise.
> > wasn't there some book called "rendezvous with rama" or something with a
> > space-ship just like you described? i don't recall the author's name...
> >
> > Marc
>
> I think the Rama spacecraft (By Authur C. Clarke) was a closed cylinder,
> but I haven't read it in a while. What the OP describes sounds like Larry
> Niven's Ring World.
>

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