Ringworld by Larry Niven

“Hugo and Nebula Award winning writer Larry Niven writes his masterwork Ringworld, set in the ‘Known Space’ universe.  A trillion people live in a giant space craft that is created to simulate a planet, which is about to be destroyed.”  Summary provided by John, director of PPL.

Look for other books in the “Known Space” series:

• Ringworld’s Children
• The Ringworld Engineers
• The Ringworld Throne
• Protector
• A Gift from Earth
• The long arm of GIL Hamilton
• Neutron Star
• The Patchwork Girl
• World of Ptavvs

Enders game by Orson Scott Card

Ender’s Game is a great science fiction novel.  Ender Wiggin is recruited by the world government for “training” to fight the alien “buggers”.  This first novel in a long running series follows Ender as he engages in training simulations and interacts with the other recruits.  A very good read.

The rest of the series following Ender’s Game:

• Speaker for the dead
• Xenocide
• Children of the mind

The Shadow books are a related series that involve Ender’s family, who has been left behind when he is taken to battleschool. This series order is:

• Ender’s Shadow
• Shadow of the Hegemon
• Shadow Puppets
• Shadow of the Giant

I found that the series as a whole was fast paced and exciting.  I usually don’t like to read series books because I can’t stand the suspense of waiting in between book releases, but this series I had to swallow up as fast as I could.  Highly recommended for science fiction fans.

NEW! Just released and in at the library is the new Ender’s novel “A War of Gifts.”  Come in and place a hold on it today!