Louis Gridley Wu is the main protagonist in the Ringworld series of books, written by Larry Niven.
Wu, born in the year 2650, celebrated his 200th birthday by working his way from party to party around the world using transfer booths to stay ahead of the dateline.
After one of his "calls" gets diverted to a hotel room, he accepts an offer to go on an expedition with three other members — two aliens (a Pierson's Puppeteer named Nessus, and a catli...
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Louis Gridley Wu is the main protagonist in the Ringworld series of books, written by Larry Niven.
Wu, born in the year 2650, celebrated his 200th birthday by working his way from party to party around the world using transfer booths to stay ahead of the dateline.
After one of his "calls" gets diverted to a hotel room, he accepts an offer to go on an expedition with three other members — two aliens (a Pierson's Puppeteer named Nessus, and a catlike Kzin called Speaker-to-Animals) and Teela Brown, a human female supposedly bred for luck. The group crash-lands on the Ringworld, a huge structure 3,000,000 times the area of Earth.
Louis then returns to the Ringworld looking for matter conversion technology for another Pierson's Puppeteer, a deposed leader named "Hindmost". While there, he discovers that the Ringworld is unstable. He decides to save the Ringworld with Speaker-To-Animals (renamed Chmeee) and the Hindmost (after Wu "slags" the Hyperdrive Motor, trapping them there again)....
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