Anton Sherwood schrieb:
>> this is exactly the idea of the "ringworld". Larry Niven wrote
>> about twenty novells or so around a fictive world like this.
> 
> 
> I forget whether "twenty" in this case means three or four.
> 

yepp, .. , I Know what you mean, but in opposite to D. Admas with his 
five-part trilogy's or so, Niven was quiet productive. With a quick look 
at my bookshelf I see at least 7 novells dealing directly with ringworld
("ringworld epos"), at least 5 playing in the same universe ("kzin 
wars") and 12 more books spawning other universers and following other 
strange SciFi ideas. And these are only the ones I can call my own.
So roughly 10000 pages of brain washing lyrics for little boys ;-)

By the way, ..., a world Niven spawned a story around was a solar-system 
without planets at all. Just a torus shaped dense rotating atmosphere 
around a sun. Live developed in form of and on integral shaped trees. 
Seas and oceans where just blobs of water drifting in the cloud.

... dave

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