Ring world engineers by Larry Niven
So far a wonderful book continuing where he left off in the original ringworld. This one however has a much darker view of ringworld. In the first we are inspired by the engineering achievement that is ringworld. This man made world with a surface area of 3 million times are own humble rock. Yes, the people might have degenerated but it was still very cool.
The darkness comes in this world when it dawns on you that ringworld is just to impossibly big. So large that humanity has broken off into a wide variety of separate species. Only, a matter of time before an entire human populatied ecosystem arises. already there are sub-species that only live off cannablising the dead.
Of course it is revelead that the puppeters caused the inital civilization collapse. Also, that the machine building race didnt build ringworld. People who build something liek ring world dont need to put skyscrappers on it.
I recommend it to anyone intreasted in scifi. Especailly if you read the first Ringworld book.
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