Badass Boast: "It was I who, on a world which circles Beta Lyrae, kicked a kzin called Chuft-Captain in the belly with my hind hoof, breaking three struts of his endoskeletal structure." - Nessus, making a Continuity Nod to the Known Space short story "The Soft Weapon".Niven reportedly wore a shirt to conventions that says "I have sex outside my species" note He wrote that if wearing a badge with the same slogan, you really have to remember to take it off outside SF conventions, or people draw funny conclusions. Author Appeal: Rishathra, which is cross-species mating used for the purposes of diplomacy on the Ring.but the first printing of Ringworld has him accomplish that by travelling from west to east.
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Artistic License Geography: Louis Wu teleports from city to city on his 200th birthday, to stay ahead of midnight and stretch the day out.Artificial Gravity: The Ringworld generates this using centrifugal force.Then politics happened between sowing the plague and fixing it, and the fixing never happened. In the second novel, we also learn that the Puppeteers secretly engineered the Ringworld's superconductor plague so that they could investigate the Ringworld safely and so that they could arrive in the nick of time and save everything, making a LOT of money and getting a LOT of power in the process. Ancient Conspiracy: It's revealed in the first novel that the Puppeteers secretly interfered in the Man-Kzin wars to try and breed docile Kzinti and also secretly lobbied for the Birthright Lottery to breed someone like Teela Brown.Only a few remnants of the City Builders are left, now mostly reduced to living in isolated settlements within the crumbing ruins of their once-great cities, within a land mostly gone to wilderness and barbarism. After the End: The Ring once had a widespread civilization note which only covered about 12 degrees of the Ring, but given the size of the Ring itself it dwarfs civilizations that cover multiple star systems, but it fell - literally.It will slice apart any matter that touches it: trying to pick it up will cut off your fingers, and one character even runs into a trap made from it and gets his head cut off (fortunately he has a spare). A heap of it looks like smoke from a distance. Absurdly Sharp Blade: The variable sword, a piece of monomolecular wire held taut by a stasis field.
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