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Title: Who are these people?
Review: This is most definitely not a stand-alone read. I had read Ringworld, but not Ringworld Engineers, and spent over half the book trying to figure out who these characters were and why I should care. I finished it through sheer deternination long after I had quit caring what happened. Maybe, if I had read Engineers, I wouldn't have had a problem, but then, maybe I would.
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