Ringworld's Children [SEP] series
Ringworld's Children
Ringworld's Children is a 2004 science fiction novel by American writer Larry Niven, the fourth in the Ringworld series set in the Known Space universe. It describes the continuing adventures of Louis Wu and companions on Ringworld.
Plot summary.
The novel's plot is largely concerned with the so-called Fringe War. All the intelligent species of Known Space are interested in the Ringworld. In the novel, they engage in a Cold War of sorts (actually begun in the previous novel, "The
these life forms can fly in space and alter gravity.
- In the "Young Wizards" series by Diane Duane, dark matter increases the expansion of the universe, effectively helping the Lone Power.
- In the fourth book of Larry Niven's "Ringworld" series, Ringworld's Children, it is revealed that the Hyperdrive used in the Known Space stories actually allows ships to travel through a dark matter universe, and this dark matter tends to cluster around gravity wells, indirectly causing the gravity singularity problem with hyperdrive