Ringworld
by Larry Niven
A new place is being built, a world of huge dimensions, encompassing millions of miles, stronger than any planet before it. There is gravity, and with high walls and its proximity to the sun, a livable new planet that is three million times the area of the Earth can be formed. We can start again!
I like this depiction...
The shadows are the night time. The 'details' of it are something I went to dream time with. Imagine Lewis and Clark times millions more in area. I need to finish the trilogy.
The rest aren’t as good but still worth reading.
It was a loop of ribbon the size of Earth’s orbit or so and a million miles wide, with 1000 mile high walls on the inner surface edges to hold in the atmosphere as it spins. Pretty cool stuff.
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