The Integral Trees

Name: The Integral Trees
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Larry Niven
ISBN: 9781470898830

Author: Larry Niven

Narrator: Tom Weiner

Unabridged: 7 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 07/01/2013

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

Leaving Earth, the crew of the spaceshipDisciplinewere prepared for a routine assignment. Dispatched by the all-powerful State on a mission of interstellar exploration and colonization,Disciplinewas aidedand secretly spied uponby Sharls Davis Kendy, an emotionless computer intelligence programmed to monitor the loyalty and obedience of the crew. What they werent prepared for, however, was the Smoke Ringan 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. WhenDisciplineencountered it, something went wrong. The crew abandoned ship and fled to the unlikely space oasis. Five hundred years later, the descendants of theDisciplinecrew 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,Disciplinewaits patiently to make contact with its wayward children.

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 Clouds on May 04, 2013

Christmas 2010: I realised that I had got stuck in a rut. I was re-reading old favourites again and again, waiting for a few trusted authors to release new works. Something had to be done. On the spur of the moment I set myself a challenge, to read every book to have won the Locus Sci-Fi award. T......more

Goodreads review by Nate on January 03, 2024

What a gem! I’m surprised I’d never heard of this book. The world building is on par with ringworld. I love these kind of far out stories mostly about exploring a far out world dreamed up by an intelligent, imaginative mind. Typically, the characters are left underdeveloped and there’s a couple of cr......more

Goodreads review by Michael on September 16, 2023

This was a more entertaining book than the first of the series A World Out of Time and lies somewhere between a 3 and 4-star. I felt generous so I bumped it up because of the idea of a biosphere in space over a gas giant which is an interesting idea (and inspiration for the end of biosphere and tree......more

Goodreads review by Brian on April 23, 2021

good classsic old-fashioned sci fi. and with a great michael whalen cover......more

Goodreads review by Kara on October 22, 2010

As a math major, reading this book prior to class often came with the burden of disclaiming, "It's not about math." And that's a little disappointing, actually, because I don't read enough books about math, especially fiction books. And The Integral Trees would make a damn good title for a math nove......more