num_pages: 240
description: The Smoke RingFor five centuries they had survived, descendants of the mutinous crew of the starship Discipline. The Earth, the State, even the Discipline were legend at best. The Smoke Ring was all they knew: an immense gaseous envelope formed around a neutron star and inhabited by free-fall life-forms, most of which were edible and all of which could fly. This was their Universe.But slowly, they began the long climb from barbarism: and somewhere, beyond the Smoke Ring, the Discipline and its cyborg 'adviser' neared the end of its 500 year wait...THE INTEGRAL TREESLarry Niven back at his bestThe best work yet by one of the best in our business, THE INTEGRAL TREES is the most imaginative work I've seen in the last five years - Jerry PournelleNiven is a master of the odd surrounding and the strange alien...for pure escape science fiction, fast and furious, The Integral Trees is practically ideal - Locus
language: English
title: The Integral Trees
titlecomplete: The Integral Trees
characters: Sharls Davis Kendy, Clave, Gavving, Jeffer
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Adventure, Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Space, Novels, Fantasy, Hard Science Fiction, Audiobook
ratings_count: 8965
series: The State
awards: awardedAt: 473414400000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 473414400000
name: Nebula Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 473414400000
name: Locus Award
category: Science Fiction Novel
publisher: Futura Books