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Ringworld engineers

by Larry Niven

This digital edition contains narrative discontinuities due to missing material at the start of numerous chapters. Converted from a library paperback, this version provides an incomplete record of the original text.

Accession 8896 ISBN 0708880746 Publisher Macdonald Futura
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