#ringworld

[retroscifiart]

Art for Larry Niven’s Ringworld series of books. Steven Vincent Johnson, Paul Lehr, Cortney Skinner, John Harris

#Larry Niven #Ringworld #Paul Lehr #John Harris #Cortney Skinner

[deathinquantization]

"Ring I" recovered 06/11/3

#weirdcore #oddcore #unreality #art #space #ringworld

[vintagegeekculture]

The Hildebrandt Brothers, Larry Niven’s Ringworld.

#ringworld #larry niven #hildebrandt brothers #tim hildebrandt

[grayrazor]

There’s something uniquely captivating to stories about people living like vermin in the vents and shafts of some massive living world-machine. Its origins and purpose beyond their understanding. Constantly hunted like parasitic bacteria by its immune system.

#sci fi #fantasy #great machine #arcology #eternal engine #ringworld #i have no mouth and i must scream #scorn #prey 2006 #treasure planet #blame! #forbidden planet #zathras

[spookygibberish]

Extremely random selection of book fanart, presented in the order I read them:

1. Blood Meridian - The Past is a Different Country. Probably the most perspective changing book I've ever read, as someone who lives in an area with one of its biggesr claims to fame of being a former Cowtown. As a meticulously researched depiction of the old west, it is probably the least tumblr friendly book of all time

2. Ringworld - this one was dogshit but some of the aliens and ideas are cool. Have a puppeteer.

3. Roadside Picnic - :,)

4. A Game of Thrones - Neither as good nor as bad as people say, felt like trying to draw how I pictured a few characters bc most of the art makes them too old, too sexy, or both

#blood meridian #ringworld #asoiaf #a game of thrones #roadside picnic #extremely wildly varying tone and levels of quality here #fanart

[pluralzalpha]

Galactic Gazetteer: Corazonia

Type: Dyson ring

Class: M (inner surface environment)

Quadrant: Alpha

Inhabitants: Corazonians

Affiliation: United Federation of Planets

Appearance: LWD "In the Cradle of Vexilon" (2023)

Fun fact: built over 6 million years ago by a species that then sublimed to the 5th dimension, and colonised much later by the humanoid Corazonians.

Another fun fact: environment managed by the sentient supercomputer Vexilon.

Fun fact 3: do not enter Safe Mode with Vexilon, this will trigger his environmental reboot programme.

#star trek #galactic gazetteer #class m #alpha quadrant #star trek lower decks #dyson ring #ringworld #united federation of planets

[stra-tek]

Kzinti and Star Trek

You don't see many Kzinti in Star Trek, and there's a very good reason for that: They're not actually Star Trek aliens, but a borrow from Larry Niven's Known Space series of books. And so Paramount don't actually own them. "The Slaver Weapon" episode of The Animated Series is an adaptation of Larry's "The Soft Weapon"

TAS' "Slaver Weapon" brought lots of Known Space lore into Trek. 4 Man-Kzin Wars were fought prior to the invention of faster-than-light travel, which really doesn't work in Trek where First Contact established, well, first contact and it was between humans and Vulcans after the first warp flight.

We also saw a Slaver, which have a rich backstory in Known Space where they're known as the Thrint and once ruled over the galaxy with their telepathy.

Some of Niven's backstory fits into Trek but other parts don't.

The Man-Kzin Wars don't. That being said, there have been attempts to bring Kzin back into Trek and several references to them. The Next Gen novel "The Captain's Honor" features the M'dok in the B-plot, a feline species who fought 2 wars with humanity one before the founding of the Federation and one after... sound vaguely familiar? They were originally the Kzin, and had name and details changed to avoid potential legal issues.

The Kzin exist in the Star Fleet Battles tabletop gaming universe (which is like a Trek splinter universe, licensed from TOS, TAS and the Star Fleet Technical Manual but nothing else), but they lack the distinctive bat ears.

Starfleet Command, the videogame adaptation of Star Fleet Battles swaps the Kzinti for the Mirak, again to avoid copyright issues.

But then came Star Trek Picard, where in season one Riker talks about an issue with the Kzinti (apparently permission was sought from Larry Niven and given for the mention) and then Lower Decks gave us Taylor, who is clearly Kzinti but likely will just never have anyone say it out loud just to be on the safe side

Oh, and the 1980 Star Trek Maps were cheeky and called them the K'zinti and hoped the apostrophe would make everything okay.

There have been attempts to bring the Kzinti back to Trek, like a planned Enterprise season 5 episode called "Kilkenny Cats" which was almost resurrected as a New Voyages fan film project. Here's the poster, where they'd replaced the Kzinti with the Kytharri (another Kzin-expy from the DS9 "Prophecy and Change" anthology

The "Kilkenny Cats" story read somewhat like a retread of DS9's "Armageddon Game". There were also attempts to get an animated Star Trek movie made called Lions of the Night, involving Sulu and the Enterprise-B dealing with a Kzinti invasion.

Oh oh, and read Ringworld. It's fantastic. And makes one wonder what the Kzin world is like in the Trek world... because they're unable to stop themselves launching violent wars on neighbours which they have no hope of winning, their world is essentially occupied by humans and that's very un-Trek (which of course makes it 10x more fascinating) indeed. How would Starfleet and the Federation deal with such a threat?

#star trek #known space #larry niven #kzinti #lower decks #star trek enterprise #ringworld #the animated series #star trek tas #deep lore #deep dive #star trek novels #star trek novelverse

[70sscifiart]

Cover artwork by Eddie Jones for an edition of Larry Nivens' Ringworld

#submission #Eddie Jones #ringworld

[thelastofthebookworms]

You'll find the other polls in my 'sf polls' tag / my pinned post.

#polls #science fiction #sf polls #a fire upon the deep #vernor vinge #book of the new sun #gene wolfe #old man's war #john scalzi #the gods themselves #isaac asimov #shards of honor #the vorkosigan saga #vorkosigan saga #lois mcmaster bujold #contact #carl sagan #ringworld #larry niven #nine princes in amber #the chronicles of amber #chronicles of amber #roger zelazny #dragonflight #dragonriders of pern #anne mccaffrey

[haveyoureadthisscifibook]

vote yes if you have finished the entire book.

vote no if you have not finished the entire book.

(faq · submit a book)

#scifi #books #Ringworld #Larry Niven #poll #result: no #l: English

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Ringworld Engineers by Tomislav Tikulin

#Sci-Fi #Retrofuturism #Ringworld #Larry Niven #Ringworld Engineers #Covers #Cover Art #Tomislav Tikulin

[retroscifiart]

Art by John Harris for ‘Ringworld Throne’ by Larry Niven (1997)

#john harris #ringworld

[deathinquantization]

"Ring II" recovered 26/11/3

#weirdcore #oddcore #art #unreality #nostalgia #space #ringworld

[space-glove]

OUTSIDER

#lego #art #character design #scifi #alien #monster #creature #ringworld

[grayrazor]

A lot of bad "humans are space orcs"/"humanity fuck yeah!" web fanfiction intentionally or unintentionally imitates Niven, but the guy himself was pretty good at avoiding the worst cliches. Every "enemy" species is less inferior to humanity and more a sidegrade with different strengths and weaknesses.

Slavers and Kzin are stronger and faster than humans, but kinda stupid. Fithp are good strategists, but are unprepared for the concept of “revenge.” Moties and Pak are super smart, but can never accomplish anything as a civilization because they’re so warlike.

#science fiction #humans are space orcs #hfy #humans are deathworlders #larry niven #hard science fiction #known space #ringworld #man-kzin wars #footfall #the mote in god's eye

[kerghoulen]

WIP render for a ring world project I’m working on. Had trouble figuring out the atmospheric haze

#blender #space #scifi #ringworld #halo #wip #current wip #scifiart #digital art #space art #megastructure