The Smoke Ring, Larry Niven
The Smoke Ring, Larry Niven
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The Smoke Ring

Author: Larry Niven

Narrator: Tom Weiner

Unabridged: 8 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/01/2013

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

In the free-fall environment of the Smoke Ring, descendants of the crew of the Discipline no longer remember their Earth roots or the existence of Sharls Davis Kendy, the computer-program despot of the shipuntil Kendy initiates contact once more. Fourteen years later, only Jeffer, the Citizens Tree Scientist, knows that Kendy is still watching and waiting. Then, when the Citizens Tree people rescue a family of loggers, they learn for the first time of the Admiralty, a large society living in free fall amid the floating debris called the Clump. It is likely that the Admiralty has maintained, intact, Disciplines original computer library. Exploration is a temptation neither Jeffer nor Kendy can resist, and neither Citizens Tree nor Sharls Davis Kendy will ever be the same again.

About Larry Niven

Larry Niven is the multiple Hugo, Locus, and Nebula Award–winning author of science fiction short stories and novels, including the Ringworld series, as well as many other science fiction masterpieces. His Footfall, coauthored with Jerry Pournelle, was a New York Times bestseller.

Reviews

Goodreads review by prcardi on July 26, 2017

Storyline: 2/5 Characters: 2/5 Writing Style: 1/5 World: 2/5 Perfunctory [per-fuhngk-tuh-ree] adjective 1. performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial:Such is the dominant quality of this book. Niven wanted to explore the hard science qualities of the Smoke Ring he had concocted in the se......more

Goodreads review by Rindis on January 28, 2010

The sequel to Niven's The Integral Trees, it build upon it and does well as an independent book. I first discovered the Smoke Ring when this book was serialized in Analog, and had no problem reading this second book first. That said, I do recommend starting with The Integral Trees, because while......more

Goodreads review by Dan on July 23, 2007

This is the sequel to Niven's The Integral Trees, which established one of the most daringly inventive natural environments in all of speculative fiction. While the first novel contains a lot of backstory and exposition, this is the real meat of the tale for me; I think you can get by just fine with......more

Goodreads review by Little on January 29, 2016

Excellent SiFi story by one of the master of the genre. Very good and quick read. Very recommended......more

Goodreads review by Justin on January 18, 2008

This book is set in Niven's State universe, as opposed to his Ringworld universe in which most of his other books are set. A good adventure takes place but the real draw of this book is its setting. The smoke ring is a habitable ring of dense air around an ancient Neutron Star, being bled from a gas......more

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