Summer Reading List
Summer is a bracingly honest season for readers: it's too hot to pretend to be clever, so you just read books you actually like. TIME asked some of its favorite writers what they read when they read for fun
Lev Grossman picks Ringworld by Larry Niven
It's Louis Wu's 200th birthday, and he's bored. It's the far future; Earth is a techno-Utopia, but life just isn't that exciting. Enter the Puppeteers, aliens who kidnap Louis and dispatch him to explore a ring-shaped world of unknown origin. Published in 1970, Ringworld is still fresh and rich and wildly entertaining — Niven is a galaxy-class storyteller — and its rigorous scientific foundations make SF-lite like Transformers 2 look like yesterday's news.
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