@SFRuminations I’ve always wanted a good rendering of what it would be like to stand on #LarryNiven’s #ringworld’s surface. No artist’s impression or 3D #render I have been able to find has given me the experience I want; the ones that try to be physically accurate always seem to be rendered from a few thousand k’s above the surface. I want ground level, both in a lower flat-ish area and from a normal mountain. I want to see the horizon tilting up in the spinward and, er, widdershins directions, and the wall mountains to the sides. I want to see this from near the middle and nearer an edge. Surely these days this is possible!
@whybird@SFRuminations I read somewhere that an accurate rendition would be unimpressive because of the sheer scale. Your landscape would appear flat as far as you could see, and the “arch” in the sky would be a dim, pencil-thin line.
@SFRuminations Sorry to hear it - I still have flashbacks to some of his short stories like The Hole Man and The Fourth Profession, as well as Lucifer's Hammer, Ringworld, The Legacy of Heorot and Footfall, where I'll just contemplate some of the ideas.
@pyperkub Birthday posts are birthday posts -- that's all. For my actual tastes and discussion of SF, check out my site as I probably have said before. That said, most of the Niven I read was before I started writing about SF but space opera and "hard SF" tend not to be my wheelhouse.
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