The Long Road

07/04/2005 Archived Entry: "Dear Mr. Larry Niven"

In "Ringworld" and its first sequel, "Ringworld Engineers", you wrote truly imaginative, interesting, and hard sci-fi full of weird aliens and complex technologies.

What the FUCK happened to you?

Books 3 and 4 of the ringworld series are filled with nothing except sex! All the characters ever do is talk about or engage in sex! Everytime they meet someone, it's always "I wonder if and how they practice rishathra" Look! I wasn't sure how to spell the dumb word for inter-species sex, flipped to a random page and found it!! At least in your earlier books there was a perfectly valid reason for characters to "rish", but now they do it all the time and with everyone they meet! Couldn't you have found something more interesting with which to occupy your characters?

Please get over your insane obsession with sex before you decide to write another Ringworld book, or at the very least try to make the sex titillating.

Sincerely,
A Concerned Reader

Replies: 6 comments

ROFLMAO -- I need to borrow those books from you :P

Posted by Dave @ 07/04/2005 12:07 AM EST

Don't let him Thai, he'll "soil" them...:P!

Posted by dAN @ 07/04/2005 03:35 PM EST

Ewwwww :P

Posted by Dave @ 07/04/2005 06:31 PM EST

man, I said the sex wasn't titillating!

Posted by Rayne @ 07/05/2005 09:01 PM EST

No bother, it'll still excite Dave...

Posted by dAN @ 07/06/2005 12:48 PM EST

He's such weaksauce!

Posted by Rayne @ 07/13/2005 09:38 PM EST