Meanwhile, Louis Wu decides to die of old age instead of asking the Hindmost for rejuvenation, as self-punishment for his helping the Hindmost to restabilize the Ringworld at the end of The Ringworld Engineers, killing (as he thinks) a trillion hominids to save the rest. The Ghouls find one of the Hindmost's spying devices in the factory and transport it all the way to the rim, to ask for help against the Protectors who rule the rim.
With the help of two Ghouls, who know that the nest is located under an abandoned floating factory, they manage to cast out the vampires. This book consists of two main plot threads, which only come together towards the end of the book.Ī variety of Ringworld hominid species, led by the Machine woman Valavirgillin (from The Ringworld Engineers), join together to kill a large nest of vampires (the shadow nest) which has been feeding on all of them. He wrote it as a replacement after being unable to finish his contracted novel The Ghost Ships, the sequel to The Integral Trees and The Smoke Ring. It is the direct sequel to his previous work The Ringworld Engineers (1980). The Ringworld Throne is a science fiction novel by American writer Larry Niven, first published in 1996.
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