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In the year 2850, the 200-year-old protagonist, Louis Wu, bored with his long life, teams up with the alien 'Puppeteer' Nessus, the belligerent 'Kzin' known as the Speaker-to-Animals, and the lucky human Teela Brown. Their journey is to explore a colossal artificial structure known as 'Ringworld,' a super-structure that encircles a star in a giant ring shape, covering an area three million times that of Earth's surface. The party begins a long escape from this structure, confronting the origins of this mysterious construct and the reality of a fallen civilization (Ringworld, Larry Niven).

In Frederik Pohl's ‘Gateway’, humanity uses ancient alien 'Heechee' automated starships discovered on an asteroid. The protagonist embarks on three perilous journeys of unknown duration, ultimately gaining immense wealth, but the process costs him his lover and comrades, lost beyond the event horizon of a black hole, leaving him tormented by a deep-seated guilt for surviving alone.

Both works share a common denominator: the awe and terror experienced when encountering the legacy of an ancient alien civilization that surpasses human understanding.

Since childhood, I've loved Sci-Fi works that deal with the encounter with the unknown. While creating my own work with the theme of the 'horizon,' the wondrous worlds revealed by modern geometry remind me of an encounter with the unknown. The idea that seemingly obvious things can be like a hidden world, depending on the perspective from which you view them, gives me the joy of traveling the deep universe even from my small space.