![]() ![]() Ringworlding is engineering on a galactic scale. ![]() The boldness of the ringworld is that it unlocks so many possibilities. But then I started to wonder about a land with nearly nothing where everything reflects a brutal sameness. Big and cool, the ringworld is an image of the sublime, but it reflects the fantasies of a relatively newly minted colonial power: America. The idea of harvesting space flotsam and jetsam, the material from planets, moons, and asteroids of multiple star systems, to make a ring one AU out from the center of a solar system is insane in scope, fascinating, and bold as hell. In the first blush of my love of science fiction, Ringworld's gently curving steel reflected beauty like a brightly burning star. ![]()
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