Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards for best novel Four travelers come to the ringworld.
And all the luck in the wor.
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