He didn’t seem to recognize the full implications of the situation. I’ve always thought Louis didn’t go far enough, though. In fact, if someone attacks them, they’re going to miss her, but that makes them more likely to hit the person standing next to her. He says that Teela’s luck simply doesn’t rub off on the people around her. However, the mission eventually goes badly, and Nessus decides that Teela wasn’t lucky after all because if she were, she wouldn’t have wound up on this very dangerous mission.
Teela’s ancestors were all winners of the Birthright Lottery for the past five generations, and Nessus hopes that her good luck will help the entire mission survive. In order to ensure the mission’s success, he recruits an extremely lucky human named Teela Brown. Two hundred years later, the Puppeteer Nessus is recruiting people for a very dangerous mission to Ringworld. (This seems a little weird because natural selection already involves a lot of luck on the individual level, but let’s just roll with it.) They had concluded from Earth’s history that humans were already lucky, and they tried to enhance this trait by encouraging an overpopulated Earth of 18 billion people to set up a lottery for the right to have children (one of several allowed methods of qualifying). "The scope of Larry Niven's work is so vast that only a writer of supreme talent could disguise the fact as well as he can.In Larry Niven’s Ringworld, the alien Puppeteers have secretly been selectively breeding humans for being lucky, which they believe (correctly) is actually a psychic probability manipulation ability. "If there isn't a Ringworld out there somewhere, we ought to build one someday. “Larry Niven’s RINGWORLD remains one of the all-time classic travelogues of science fiction - a new and amazing world and fantastic companions.”
The adventures of Louis and his companions on the Ringworld are unforgettable. Their destination is the Ringworld, an artificially constructed ring with high walls that hold 3 million times the area of Earth. Louis Wu, accompanied by a young woman with genes for luck, and a captured kzin – a warlike species resembling 8-foot-tall cats - are taken on a space ship run by a brilliant 2-headed alien called Nessus. Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novel, RINGWORLD remains a favorite among science fiction readers.
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