Louis Gridley Wu is the main protagonist in the Ringworld series of books, written by Larry Niven. Larry Nivens Ringworld, seen from space. ... Larry Niven Laurence van Cott Niven (born April 30, 1938) is a US science fiction author. ...

Wu, born in the year 2650, celebrated his 200th birthday by working his way from party to party around the world using transfer booths to stay ahead of the dateline. Teleportation is the alleged process of moving objects from one place to another more or less instantaneously, without passing through the intervening space. ...

After one of his "calls" gets diverted to a hotel room, he accepts an offer to go on an expedition with three other members — two aliens (a Pierson's Puppeteer named Nessus, and a catlike Kzin called Speaker-to-Animals) and Teela Brown, a human female supposedly bred for luck. The group crash-lands on the Ringworld, a huge structure 300,000,000 times the area of Earth. Piersons Puppeteers, often known just as Puppeteers, are a fictional alien race from Larry Nivens Known Space books. ... Nessus is a male character in Larry Nivens Known Space universe, of the species Piersons Puppeteer, a herbivorous species noted for two heads whose mouths act as capable hands. ... The Kzinti (singular Kzin) are a fictional, very warlike and bloodthirsty race of felinoid aliens in Larry Nivens Known Space series. ... Speaker-to-Animals is a lead character in the Ringworld series of books, written by Larry Niven. ... Teela Brown is a fictional character created by Larry Niven in the Ringworld novels. ... Luck is the belief in an organisation of fortunate and unfortunate events. ... Larry Nivens Ringworld, seen from space. ...

Louis then returns to the Ringworld looking for matter conversion technology for another Pierson's Puppeteer named "Hindmost." While there, he discovers that the Ringworld is unstable. He decides to save the Ringworld with Speaker-To-Animals (renamed Chmee) and the Hindmost (after Wu "slags" the Hyperdrive Motor, trapping them there again). Larry Nivens Ringworld, seen from space. ... Piersons Puppeteers, often known just as Puppeteers, are a fictional alien race from Larry Nivens Known Space books. ...

Louis pops up again for the last two Ringworld books, where he tries to get the Pak Protectors in line in The Ringworld Throne and finally escapes in Ringworld's Children.

Louis Wu also appears in the short story There Is A Tide, where he becomes the first human to make contact with the Trinoc species.

Louis is about 5' 4" (162 cm) tall and of no clear ethnic group. Born a "Flatlander", Louis is best known among his friends for inventing the "Sabbatical" — going off alone in a spaceship outside the boundaries of known space until one can tolerate human company again. Other accomplishments: discovering the Trinoc, winning for humanity the "Quantum II Hyperdrive," capable of moving a spaceship one light-year in 1.25 minutes, saving the Ringworld, and being the only hominid to become a Pak Protector and return to normal afterward. Ariane 5 lifts off with the Rosetta probe on 2nd of March, 2004. ... A light year (or light-year, or lightyear), symbol ly, is the distance light travels in one year: about 9. ... Protector eating the root of life Pak Breeders and Pak Protectors are two generic forms of fictional life in Larry Nivens Known Space universe. ...

Louis Wu is also the screen name of the webmaster of the popular Halo website HBO Halos protagonist, the Master Chief. ... Also known as HBO, this website was created in 1999 by Louis Wu and Wirehead as a fansite for the Xbox game Halo: Combat Evolved, then called Blam!, at the time for the Apple Macintosh computer, designed by Bungie Studios. ...