The Integral Trees (a Del Rey book)

Larry Niven

ISBN 10: 0345312708 / ISBN 13: 9780345312709

Published by Ballantine Books March 1984, New York, 1984

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Evolved humans live without gravity in the gas torus around a neutron star. Nice bright clean crisp copy of HB 1st. 6 x 8-1/2, 240 pp, glossary, b/w diagrams, deckled fore-edge. Fine unmarked, Near Fine unclipped jacket. Hardcover in green/white boards, in color illus jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Integral Trees (a Del Rey book)
• Publisher: Ballantine Books March 1984, New York
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0345312708
• ISBN 13: 9780345312709
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Michael Whelan
• Edition: 1st edition, 1st printing.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

Del Rey / Ballantine, 1984. Hardcover with dustjacket, "First Edition: March 1984" stated on the copyright page with a complete number line: "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1". Novel set in a a gas torus, a ring of air around a neutron star. There is a sequel, "The Smoke Ring" (1987). Nominated for the Nebula and Hugo Awards for Best Novel.

From the Inside Flap

?Niven has come up with an idea about as far out as one can get. . . . This is certainly classic science fiction?the idea is truly the hero.? ? Asimov?s Science Fiction Magazine

When leaving Earth, the crew of the spaceship Discipline was prepared for a routine assignment. Dispatched by the all-powerful State on a mission of interstellar exploration and colonization, Discipline was aided (and secretly spied upon) by Sharls Davis Kendy, an emotionless computer intelligence programmed to monitor the loyalty and obedience of the crew. But what they weren?t prepared for was the smoke ring?an immense gaseous envelope that had formed around a neutron star directly in their path. The Smoke Ring was home to a variety of plant and animal life-forms evolved to thrive in conditions of continual free-fall. When Discipline encountered it, something went wrong. The crew abandoned ship and fled to the unlikely space oasis.

Five hundred years later, the descendants of the Discipline crew living on the Smoke Ring no longer remember their origins. Earth is more myth than memory, and no recollection of the State remains. But Kendy remembers. And just outside the Smoke Ring, Discipline waits patiently to make contact with its wayward children.