![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The book, known for its hard science concepts that influenced both numerous other sci-fi works and real-life scientific thinking about alien megastructures, was followed by four sequels and four prequels, all of which are part of Niven’s “Known Space” series of novels and short stories that span approximately one thousand years of future human and alien history. Ringworld tells the story of Louis Wu, a 200-year-old man who lives on Earth in the year 2850 and is recruited to go on a deep space voyage to investigate a gigantic, habitable artificial ring that orbits a distant star and was built by a now-vanished civilization. Said Goldsman, “Hopefully that will turn into an actual set of moving pictures, but God knows.” Goldsman revealed in an interview with Collider that he is currently working on the script for the show, and that Alan Taylor is attached to direct the pilot. Now Goldsman confirms that the project is steadily moving forward. It was rather quietly announced last September that screenwriter and producer Akiva Goldsman had signed a deal with Amazon and its producing partner MGM to develop Larry Niven’s classic 1970 science fiction novel, Ringworld, as a series. ![]()
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