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The Ringworld is a landmark engineering achievement, a flat band three million times the surface of the Earth, encircling a distant star. Home to trillions of inhabitants, not all of whom are human, and host to amazing technological wonders, the Ringworld is unique in all of the universe. Explorer Louis Wu, an Earth-born human who was part of the first expedition to Ringworld, becomes enmeshed in interplanetary and interspecies intrigue as war, and a powerful new weapon, threaten to tear the Ringworld apart forever. Now the future of Ringworld lies in its children: Tunesmith, the Ghould protector; Acolyte, the exiled son of Speaker-to-Animals, and Wembleth, a strange Ringworld native with a mysterious past. All must play a dangerous game in order to save Ringworld's population, and the stability of Ringworld itself. Blending awe-inspiring science with nonstop action, Ringworld's Children.… (más)
Luis Wu despierta en el interior de un autodoc y descubre que se encuentra en manos del nuevo amo de Mundo Anillo, el protector necrófago Tunesmith. Mientras él dormía y su cuerpo se recuperaba de las heridas y los estragos de la vejez, la Guerra del Margen se ha recrudecido y las naves de humanos, kzinti, titerotes y otras especies, han estado acercándose cada vez más a la superficie del anillo. Atrapado entre los incontenibles impulsos de los protectores y sus propias dudas sobre su condición y lealtades, Luis deberá, con la ayuda de sus viejos amigos, Acólito y el Ser Último, tomar partido en la batalla inminente y prepararse para afrontar la destrucción de todo lo que conoce.
The Ringworld is a landmark engineering achievement, a flat band three million times the surface of the Earth, encircling a distant star. Home to trillions of inhabitants, not all of whom are human, and host to amazing technological wonders, the Ringworld is unique in all of the universe. Explorer Louis Wu, an Earth-born human who was part of the first expedition to Ringworld, becomes enmeshed in interplanetary and interspecies intrigue as war, and a powerful new weapon, threaten to tear the Ringworld apart forever. Now the future of Ringworld lies in its children: Tunesmith, the Ghould protector; Acolyte, the exiled son of Speaker-to-Animals, and Wembleth, a strange Ringworld native with a mysterious past. All must play a dangerous game in order to save Ringworld's population, and the stability of Ringworld itself. Blending awe-inspiring science with nonstop action, Ringworld's Children.
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