The Smoke Ring: 2nd in the 'Integral Trees' series of books
Language: English
Published by Macdonald & Co / Futura / Orbit, 1988
- Softcover
- Used
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© 1987: 2nd in the 'Integral Trees' series of books. 1st printing of 1988 edition:- Synopsis: Fourteen years after the events retailed in 'The Integral Trees', the Citizens Tree people discover that the whole computer library from the starship Discipline, from whose crew they are descended, may still be intact. To find it they have to journey across the free-fall environment of the Smoke Ring to the Clump, a mass of debris. But Sharls Davis Kendy is still waiting and watching. Only Jeffer, the Citizens Tree Scientist, remembers Kendy, the cyborg which had run Discipline's computer. He knows that Kendy will be as anxious as they are to obtain the library's information, and that a bitter struggle lies ahead of them all:- Review(s): "Larry Niven shows all the imaginative genius he has displayed in such classics as 'Ringworld' and 'Neutron Star' in this sequel to 'The Integral Trees'" / "Ingeniously described" - Time Out / "One of the most literate and inventive writers in the field" - Western Daily Press:- (original cost £3.99). …
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- Title
- The Smoke Ring: 2nd in the 'Integral Trees' series of books
- Author
- Niven, Larry
- Publisher
- Macdonald & Co / Futura / Orbit
- Publication year
- 1988
- Condition
- Very Good: Light signs of wear
- Binding
- Paperback: 7" x 4¼"
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0708882676
- ISBN 13
- 9780708882672
- Illustrator
- Cover Art: Uncredited
- Edition
- 1988 Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Item weight
- 0.22 kilograms
- Dimensions
- 7" (178mm) x 4¼" (108mm)
- Seller catalogs
- Science Fiction
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From the Inside Flap
Fourteen years later, only Jeffer, the Citizens Tree Scientist, knew that Kendy was still watching -- and waiting. Then the Citizens Tree people rescued a family of loggers and learned for the first time of the Admiralty, a large society living in free fall amid the floating debris called the Clump. And it was likely that the Admiralty had maintained, intact, Discipline's original computer library.
Exploration was a temptation neither Jeffer nor Kendy could resist, and neither Citizens Tree nor Sharls Davis Kendy would ever be the same again...
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