THE SMOKE RING (1986)
Acrylic - 32" x 48"

I was already fascinated with Larry Niven's free-fall environment, and then in this book I was especially taken with his descriptions of life in and around the “Clump.” 1/8

#sciencefiction #illustration #larryniven #ringworld #delreybooks

‘Louis said, "Can I help you?"

"You can," said the alien…

…in a voice to spark adolescent dreams. Had Louis visualized a woman to go with that voice, she would have been Cleopatra, Helen of Troy, Marilyn Monroe, and Lorelei Huntz, rolled into one.’

#Ringworld

“In Budapest were wine and athletic dances, natives who tolerated him as a tourist with money, tourists who thought he was a wealthy native. He danced the dances and he drank the wines, and he left before midnight.”

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#HarryHarrison wrote a very funny book called Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers in 1973. Some of the aliens in the book turned their home solar system into a gigantic #RingWorld and drove around in "70 yard long cars"

I think #car manufacturers read that joke and thought it was something to aim at. Especially #SUV and #pickup manufacturers. What the ever loving fuck was wrong with a 1990s Ford Escort or equivalent? Why do we all have to drive 3 ton monstrosities?

We shouldn't even need to own personal cars by now. Instead we should all be taking free, electric #PublicTransport, #cycling or #walking. Everyone but the most blinkered and confused right winger can see this is the right thing to do.

It seems that we get the future #SciFi writers come up with. The problem is sci-fi writers love a good #dystopia.

Poor Teela Brown and Halrloprillalar Hotrufan. Cursed to be created in Ringworld and doomed to be written by Larry Niven. 😱

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speed of light in ring demos:
https://www.shadertoy.com/view/wc3yz7
https://www.shadertoy.com/view/w3SfWm

#shadertoy #ringworld

by Tim Hildebrandt

I thought that this was a nice positive future representation. It's on a totally constructed world, a Ringworld, which is such an awesome idea, lots of ring world science fiction now, it seems only natural to take a space station to the next level.

It could be that within this world is an outwardly polished nightmare, and I probably wouldn't read it otherwise. But it looks like a nice place to spend time🤣

#art #scifiArt #illustration #ringworld #clean #bright #happy #humane #fun #pretty