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Larry niven ring world6/1/2023 ![]() ![]() Facing him is a alien with three legs, no arms and two heads. Between transfer booths he considers another sabbatical - a trip to and beyond the reaches of Known Space, all alone in a single ship for a year or more, until he begins to yearn for people's company again - when all of a sudden the transfer booth materializes him in an sunlit hotel room, rather than the nocturnal Seville he had set its control for. Having lived for two centuries, he has seen it all many times over and people in general are getting on his nerves. However, though healthy, rich and intelligent, it is becoming clear Louis is utterly bored. Louis, after having escaped the festivities of his own 200th birthday, is now bar-hopping the world, always staying behind the local midnight in order to extend his birthday as long as possible.ĭespite his age, Louis is in perfect physical condition owning to a combination of advanced medical technology and boosterspice, a drug that extends human life. ![]() The novel opens in 2855 with Louis Gridley Wu stepping out of a transfer booth, a teleportation kiosque, in Beirut, thus entering yet another time zone. ![]()
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