Comments on: Larry Niven – Ringworld / Protector

By: tim

tim — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 16:23:43 +0000

fantastic covers!
the covers of the german editions have different illustrations, which unfortunatly are a bit poor.
i need to get these english editions

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By: Sci-Fi-O-Rama » Dean Ellis – The World Inside

Sci-Fi-O-Rama » Dean Ellis – The World Inside — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:17:48 +0000

[...] This cover has a suitably epic in a similar vein to the covers Dean conjured up for Larry Niven’s Ringworld series, I posted about those about a year ago click here for a refresher… [...]

By: Kie

Kie — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:29:51 +0000

Cheers Mark, I think I realised that shortly after posting – the flickr Source had it marked as Vincent Di Fate…. I’lll amend that though …. cheers

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 02:29:21 +0000

Actually, both covers are by Dean Ellis, who did many covers for Niven’s Ballantine titles in the early 1970s.

By: Larry Niven Rules

Larry Niven Rules — Fri, 29 May 2009 22:19:34 +0000

I think Larry Niven is hidden gem in Science Fiction. Ringworld is one of my favorites.

By: Kie

Kie — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 06:30:21 +0000

Sounds pretty amazing! I am booking a holiday there then….

By: Colin Peters

Colin Peters — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:19:06 +0000

I haven’t read Protector either, actually. I should see if I can find it.

The scale of Ringworld really is pretty much impossible to convey, I think. It’s so huge that the entire Earth’s landmass is reproduced, full scale, as an archipelago, utterly lost in one of its oceans. And the whole thing is spinning to produce artificial gravity! Madness!

By: Kie

Kie — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:36:17 +0000

Hey Colin,

You’ve pretty much guessed my post! although it’s a great cover the scale is completely wrong and as you say it also shows the landscape flat! which is odd – looks more like a Zoetrope! I’ve not read the novels BTW – Whats the grassy ring on the cover of Protector? that look a bit out of scale too – cool though of course

By: Colin Peters

Colin Peters — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:28:07 +0000

Interesting how the artist on the Ringworld cover chose to put little pictures of a landscape on the inside of the ring, instead of trying to represent looking down on the surface of the ring world. I wonder if that was deliberate... Not to mention the scale is wildly off. I admit, the scale of the thing is difficult to portray well. Only a few artists have seriously attempted it. Most covers for the book fall into the same category of trying to bring it down to a more human scale. Hah. Nitpicky me. I always was a sucker for Niven's "big orbital thing" novels.