But as I said, it's not bad story - or rather it's two stories of average entertainment value. After the first two books the ringworld itself is kind of milked dry. Nothing in the plot that couldn't have taken place on a normal planet. No real new insights in to the nature of the ringworld. Not that Ringworld Throne is a bad book, it's just that it's not really about the ringworld - it takes place on the ringworld and uses the same set of characters and humanoids (plus a few new species), but that's just about it. Somehow I knew that it just couldn't go on and if you ask me, Niven should have stopped with Ringworld Engineers. It hasn't been easy for me to keep a positive attitude towards this book. The Ringworld Throne is the third book in the Ringworld series and centres on a variety of races banding together to kill a large nest of Vampires on a world that is the shape of a ring.
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