Bigger Than Worlds

Publication date: 
1974-03
Publication type: 
Non-Fiction
Published: 
Analog, March 1974
Opus No.: 
72
Setting: 
N/A
Summary: 

An article prepared by Larry Niven, discussing the various forms of space habitat that humans could live on—the Ringworld being the medium-sized one of the bunch!

Notes: 

discussion of the Ringworld and other macrostructures. Illustrated by Ames

Reprints: 

fanzine, Speculation, as "Alternatives to Worlds"; collection, The Endless Frontier, edited by Jerry Pournelle, November 1979; Skylife: Space Habitats in Science and Story , ed. Gregory Benford & George Zebrowski, Harcourt 2000; Hole in Space, A; Playgrounds of the Mind