Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards for best novel Four travelers come to the ringworld.
Why did these disparate individuals come together? How could they possibly function together? And where, in the name of anything sane, were they headed?.
And one of the most savage life-forms known in the galaxy.
Speaker-To-Animals: kzin; large, orange-furred, and carnivorous.
And all the luck in the world.
Teela Brown: human; a wide-eyed youngster with no allegiances, no experience, no abilities.
Except that this particular puppeteer is insane.
Nessus: a trembling coward, a puppeteer with a built-in survival pattern of nonviolence.
Seeking a challenge, and all too capable of handling it.
Louis Wu: human and old; bored with having lived too fully for far too many years. . .
Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards for best novel Four travelers come to the ringworld
