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Larry Niven
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Random House Value Pub
Publication date
May 1, 1997
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780345418166
ISBN-10
0345418166
Dimensions
1 by 5.50 by 8.50 in.
Weight
0.55 lbs.
Availability§
Out of Print
Original list price
$11.00
§As reported by publisher
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A World Out Of Time | Seveneves | Ringworld | Protector | Ringworld Engineers | Lucifer's Hammer | The Ringworld Throne | Ringworld's Children | Three Books of Known Space
A World Out Of Time | Seveneves | Ringworld | Protector | Ringworld Engineers | Lucifer's Hammer | The Ringworld Throne | Ringworld's Children | Three Books of Known Space
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: âNiven has come up with an idea about as far out as one can get. . . . This is certainly classic science fictionâthe idea is truly the hero.â âAsimovâs 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 werenât prepared for was the smoke ringâan 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.
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 werenât prepared for was the smoke ringâan 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.
Editions
Paperback
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Reprint edition from Random House Value Pub (May 1, 1997); titled "Integral Trees"
9780345418166 | details & prices | 5.50 × 8.50 × 1.00 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $11.00
About: âNiven has come up with an idea about as far out as one can get.
About: âNiven has come up with an idea about as far out as one can get.
With Helen Eve |
Reprint edition from Ballantine Books (September 1, 1989)
9780345320650 | details & prices | 4.25 × 7.25 × 1.00 in. | 0.30 lbs | List price $5.99
This edition also contains Boarding School Girls
About: A culture of evolved humans inhabits a doughnut-shaped gas tube that rotates around a neutron star
This edition also contains Boarding School Girls
About: A culture of evolved humans inhabits a doughnut-shaped gas tube that rotates around a neutron star
Cassette/Spoken Word
from Blackstone Audio Inc (May 1, 1996); titled "Integral Trees"
9780786109678 | details & prices | 7.00 × 9.75 × 1.25 in. | 0.85 lbs | List price $44.95
About: [This is the Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case.
About: [This is the Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case.
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