The Ringworld Engineers
(OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, OverDrive Listen)
It's been twenty years since the quixotic and worlds-weary Louis Wu discovered the Ringworld. Now he and Speaker-to-Animals are going back, captives of the Hindmost, a deposed puppeteer leader.
With Louis' help, the Hindmost intends to regain his status by bringing back such extraordinary treasures from the Ringworld that his fellow puppeteers will have to be impressed. But when they arrive, Louis discovers that the Ringworld is no longer stable—and will destroy itself within months. To survive, he must locate the control center of the legendary engineers who built the planet.
His quest becomes a wild and gripping venture blended with the mysteries and spectacular technologies that only Larry Niven can conjure.
If you are having problem transferring a title to your device, please fill out this support form or visit the library so we can help you to use our eBooks and eAudio Books.
Larry Niven. (2011). The Ringworld Engineers. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Larry Niven. 2011. The Ringworld Engineers. Blackstone Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Larry Niven, The Ringworld Engineers. Blackstone Publishing, 2011.
MLA Citation (style guide)Larry Niven. The Ringworld Engineers. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing, 2011.
| Library | Owned | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Shared Digital Collection | 1 | 0 |
There are 2 holds on this title.
OverDrive Product Record
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0887-1/{2572DC00-B200-473D-9B58-ECAD687DB35C}Img100.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0887-1/{2572DC00-B200-473D-9B58-ECAD687DB35C}Img200.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0887-1/257/2DC/00/{2572DC00-B200-473D-9B58-ECAD687DB35C}Img150.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0887-1/257/2DC/00/{2572DC00-B200-473D-9B58-ECAD687DB35C}Img400.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- formats
- identifiers:
- type: PublisherCatalogNumber
- value: 9781538592618
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781483060125
- name: OverDrive MP3 Audiobook
- id: audiobook-mp3
- identifiers:
- identifiers:
- type: PublisherCatalogNumber
- value: 9781538592618
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781483060125
- name: OverDrive Listen
- id: audiobook-overdrive
- identifiers:
- otherFormatIdentifiers
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781455126583
- mediaType
- Audiobook
- primaryCreator
- role: Author
- name: Larry Niven
- isOwnedByCollections
- True
- title
- The Ringworld Engineers
- seriesId
- 554744
- dateAdded
- 2013-12-06T16:14:00Z
- contentDetails
- href: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=141&titleID=653103
- type: text/html
- account:
- name: Sacramento Public Library (CA)
- id: 1151
- sortTitle
- Ringworld Engineers Ringworld Series Book 02
- crossRefId
- 653103
- series
- Ringworld
- id
- 2572DC00-B200-473D-9B58-ECAD687DB35C
- starRating
- 3.8
OverDrive MetaData
- isPublicDomain
- False
- formats
- duration: 13:19:45
- fileName: TheRingworldEngineer_9781483060132_653103
- partCount: 12
- fileSize: 379602674
- identifiers:
- audience: retailer
- type: PublisherCatalogNumber
- value: 9781538592618
- audience: library
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781483060125
- rights:
- type: PlayOnPC
- value: 1
- type: PlayOnPCCount
- value: -1
- type: BurnToCD
- value: 1
- type: BurnToCDCount
- value: -1
- type: PlayOnPM
- value: 1
- type: TransferToSDMI
- value: 1
- type: TransferToNonSDMI
- value: 1
- type: TransferCount
- value: -1
- type: CollaborativePlay
- value: 0
- type: PublicPerformance
- value: 0
- type: TranscodeToAAC
- value: 1
- name: OverDrive MP3 Audiobook
- isReadAlong: False
- id: audiobook-mp3
- onSaleDate: 10/3/2011
- samples:
- source: Part 1
- formatType: audiobook-mp3
- url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0887-1/653103-TheRingworldEngineers.mp3
- source: Part 1
- formatType: audiobook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=2572DC00-B200-473D-9B58-ECAD687DB35C&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- duration: 13:10:45
- fileName: RingworldEngineers
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 379566912
- identifiers:
- audience: retailer
- type: PublisherCatalogNumber
- value: 9781538592618
- audience: library
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781483060125
- name: OverDrive Listen
- isReadAlong: False
- id: audiobook-overdrive
- onSaleDate: 10/3/2011
- samples:
- source: Part 1
- formatType: audiobook-mp3
- url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0887-1/653103-TheRingworldEngineers.mp3
- source: Part 1
- formatType: audiobook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=2572DC00-B200-473D-9B58-ECAD687DB35C&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- creators
- role: Author
- fileAs: Niven, Larry
- bioText:
Larry Niven is the multiple Hugo, Locus, and Nebula Award–winning author of science fiction short stories and novels, including the Ringworld series, as well as many other science fiction masterpieces. His Footfall, coauthored with Jerry Pournelle, was a New York Times bestseller.
- name: Larry Niven
- role: Narrator
- fileAs: Powers, Richard
- name: Richard Powers
- imprint
- Blackstone Audio, Inc., and Buck 50 Productions, LLC
- publishDate
- 2011-10-03T00:00:00-04:00
- edition
- Unabridged
- isOwnedByCollections
- True
- title
- The Ringworld Engineers
- fullDescription
It's been twenty years since the quixotic and worlds-weary Louis Wu discovered the Ringworld. Now he and Speaker-to-Animals are going back, captives of the Hindmost, a deposed puppeteer leader.
With Louis' help, the Hindmost intends to regain his status by bringing back such extraordinary treasures from the Ringworld that his fellow puppeteers will have to be impressed. But when they arrive, Louis discovers that the Ringworld is no longer stable—and will destroy itself within months. To survive, he must locate the control center of the legendary engineers who built the planet.
His quest becomes a wild and gripping venture blended with the mysteries and spectacular technologies that only Larry Niven can conjure.
- seriesId
- 554744
- reviews
- premium: False
- source: Poul Anderson
- content: "The Ringworld Engineers has all the imaginativeness, convincing detail, and narrative vivacity that have come to be associated with the works of Larry Niven. Furthermore, it answers a lot of questions that have been tantalizing his readers for a long time. Most highly recommended!"
- premium: True
- source:
- content: While more imaginative vocal characterizations and some additional dramatic flair might have enhanced this production, Connor O'Brien's uncluttered reading of Niven's second Ringworld novel allows the story's mind-boggling concepts to shine. When such concepts include a species that needn't build spaceships because it can simply move its entire solar system wherever it wants to go, one can see the wisdom of essentially letting the book speak for itself. O'Brien supplies serviceable voices for Niven's adventurers. Just as Stanley Kubrick wisely used straightforward direction to emphasize the ideas in the film 2001, O'Brien successfully uses an unadorned approach to do the same for this novel of exploration and cosmic mystery. J.P.M. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
- popularity
- 763
- links
- self:
- href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BWwAAAA2I/products/2572dc00-b200-473d-9b58-ecad687db35c/metadata
- type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
- self:
- id
- 2572dc00-b200-473d-9b58-ecad687db35c
- starRating
- 3.8
- readingOrder
- 2
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0887-1/{2572DC00-B200-473D-9B58-ECAD687DB35C}Img100.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0887-1/{2572DC00-B200-473D-9B58-ECAD687DB35C}Img200.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0887-1/257/2DC/00/{2572DC00-B200-473D-9B58-ECAD687DB35C}Img150.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0887-1/257/2DC/00/{2572DC00-B200-473D-9B58-ECAD687DB35C}Img400.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- isPublicPerformanceAllowed
- False
- languages
- code: en
- name: English
- subjects
- value: Fiction
- value: Science Fiction
- publishDateText
- 10/03/2011
- otherFormatIdentifiers
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781455126583
- mediaType
- Audiobook
- shortDescription
It's been twenty years since the quixotic and worlds-weary Louis Wu discovered the Ringworld. Now he and Speaker-to-Animals are going back, captives of the Hindmost, a deposed puppeteer leader.
With Louis' help, the Hindmost intends to regain his status by bringing back such extraordinary treasures from the Ringworld that his fellow puppeteers will have to be impressed. But when they arrive, Louis discovers that the Ringworld is no longer stable—and will destroy itself within months. To survive, he must locate the control center of the legendary engineers who built the planet.
His quest becomes a wild and gripping venture blended with the mysteries and spectacular technologies that only Larry Niven can conjure.
- sortTitle
- Ringworld Engineers Ringworld Series Book 02
- crossRefId
- 653103
- series
- Ringworld
- publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- bisacCodes
- code: FIC028000
- description: Fiction / Science Fiction / General
