# Recall and sum up "Ringworld Throne" for me (unboxed spoilers)

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 9, 2006, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recall-and-sum-up-ringworld-throne-for-me-unboxed-spoilers/347719 "2006-03-09T19:00:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recall-and-sum-up-ringworld-throne-for-me-unboxed-spoilers/347719/1 "2006-03-09T19:00:02Z")

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I’m reading _Ringworld’s Children_ right now. It takes up right where _Ringworld Throne_ left off. Although I read the latter novel years ago, it was major suck and I successfully blocked it out of my mind and have forgotten nearly all of it. Now, however, it would useful to recollect a few key elements to help my reading of the current novel. Which by the way is a bit better, IMO, than the last one - I like protectors racing about and doing unintelligibly brilliant things while we breeders gape and try to understand it all.

Could someone in the know do a sort of bullet-point list touching on the major plot points of _Throne_? I have a vague recollection of the Fringe War at the end and of some protectors duking it out, and that’s about it. Help?

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**Author:** ![tanstaafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recall-and-sum-up-ringworld-throne-for-me-unboxed-spoilers/347719/2 "2006-03-09T20:05:32Z")

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[Will this do?](http://everything2.org/index.pl?node=Ringworld%20Throne)

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**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recall-and-sum-up-ringworld-throne-for-me-unboxed-spoilers/347719/3 "2006-03-09T20:19:26Z")

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> [@teela brown](#):
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> it was major suck

Seems to me that you nailed it right there.

I had the same problem when I read RC. There seemed to be a discontinuity between the two books where the fringe war wasn’t really adequately explained. But that may have been because I too blocked as much of it out of my mind as possible.