Why has this novel's reputation lasted so long? Niven is

what are your favorites from niven?

>>8341033
Mote in God's Eye its the best I've read from him. Ringworld in comparison is campy.

>>8341027

I thought Hogfather was interesting, it made some good points

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>>8341027
>Ringworld not good
Are you a retard?

Ringworld is absolutely campy, I agree

>cardboard characters
>no discernible plot

Niven clearly got stuck in worldbuilding and came up with a bunch of interesting locations, the plot progresses only so that Niven can describe those locations, and then it ends.

>>8341119
>saving a thumbnail
Are you a retard?

>>8341129
and he didn't even expand that well on it in the sequels. science fiction was naive in those days. somehow ringpulp won both the Hugo and the Nebula.

It was the idea of a ringworld not the novel itself that was praise worthy.

>>8341099
>Hogfather
That's Cubeworld you goober

>>8341027
I'm glad to hear niven has better stuff. That shit was retarded in every aspect (retarded physics, retarded aliens, retarded characters plot and writing, ultra retarded sex scenes). I honestly enjoyed reading it, though, mostly because of that.

>>8341099
rectangle world was the shit though.