description: [This is the Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case.][Read by Pat Bottino]Leaving Earth, the crew of the spaceship Discipline prepared for a routine colonization assignment. What they weren't prepared for was the smoke 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 the 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 Sharls Davis Kendy, the ship's cyborg cop, remembers. And just outside the Smoke Ring, the Discipline waits patiently to make contact with its wayward children.[ The Integral Trees is Book 2 of Larry Niven's 'The State' series. Book 1 is A World Out of Time and Book 3 is The Smoke Ring ]
language: English
title: The Integral Trees
titlecomplete: The Integral Trees (State Series, Book 2)
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: Blackstone Audio, Inc.