num_pages: 323
description: In the free-fall environment of the Smoke Ring, the descendants of the crew of the Discipline no longer remembered their Earth roots -- or the existence of Sharls Davis Kendy, the computer-program despot of the ship. Until Kendy initiated contact once more.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...
language: English
title: The Smoke Ring
titlecomplete: The Smoke Ring (The State, #3)
characters: Sharls Davis Kendy, Clave, Jeffer, Rather
genres: American, Space, Fantasy, Collections, Novels, Hard Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Fiction, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 3613
series: The State
publisher: Del Rey