Neptune in Fiction

Chapters: Ringworld, Sailor Neptune, Futurama: Bender's Big Score, Event Horizon, Last and First Men, Virtuality, Invasion of the Neptune Men, a Tale of Two Santas, Triton, Nearly Neptune. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 73. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ringworld is a Hugo, Nebula, and Locus award-winning 1970 science fiction novel by Larry Niven, set in his Known Space universe and considered a classic of science fiction literature. It is followed by three sequels, and preceded by three prequels, and ties into numerous other books set in Known Space. Ringworld won the Hugo Award in 1970, as well as both the Nebula and Locus Awards in 1971. The novel opens in 2855 with Louis Gridley Wu stepping out of a transfer booth, a teleportation kiosk, in Beirut, thus entering yet another time zone. Louis, after having escaped the festivities of his own 200th birthday, is now bar-hopping the world, jumping west and always staying behind the local midnight in order to extend his birthday as long as possible. Despite his age, Louis turns out to be in perfect physical condition owing to a combination of advanced medical technology and boosterspice, a drug that extends human life. However, though he is healthy, rich and intelligent, Louis is clearly growing utterly bored. Having lived for two centuries, he has seen it all many times over and people in general are getting on his nerves. Between transfer booths he considers another sabbatical a trip to and beyond the reaches of Known Space, all alone in a spaceship for a year or more, until he begins to yearn for people's company again when all of a sudden the transfer booth materializes him in a sunlit hotel room, rather than the nocturnal Seville he had set its control for. Facing him is an alien with three legs, no arms and two heads. The alien in...http: //booksllc.net/?id=2605