Sunday, January 3, 2010

(2523) The Integral Trees by Larry Niven


Publisher's Summary

When the spacecraft Discipline reached the double-star system of T3 and LeVoy's Star, its crew discovered that an immense doughnut-shaped gaseous envelope had formed around a neutron star. Though it had very little usable land, the Smoke Ring had evolved a variety of life forms, most of which were edible and all of which could fly. All members of the restless crew of Discipline left the ship behind and colonized the celestial paradise, all but Sharls Davis Kendy, the ship's cyborg cop. Five centuries later, most of the mutineers' descendants forgot about the Earth, the State, even Discipline. But Sharls Davis Kendy never forgot about the humans, and somewhere just outside the Smoke Ring, he waited.

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