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The Smoke Ring is a 1987 science fiction novel by Larry Niven. Like much of Niven's work, the story is heavily influenced by the setting: a gas torus, a ring of air around a neutron star. It is a sequel to The Integral Trees.
- Larry Niven
- 1987
1 de abr. de 1987 · The smoke ring is a habitable ring of dense air around an ancient Neutron Star, being bled from a gas giant in tight orbit around the star. It is a huge area full of life but without gravity. The prequel to this book, The Integral Trees, is named for the largest life forms in the ring.
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6 de jul. de 2022 · 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.
This novel is the direct sequel to Integral Trees and explores what life could be like near one of the Lagrange Points where gravitational effects cause material to naturally gather together into denser concentrations.
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1 de dic. de 2013 · But when the Citizen Tree tribe rescues a family from a burning tree, they unwittingly expose their existence to the State-like Cluster, a growth-structure in the Smoke Ring where matter collects at one of the star's Lagrange Points.
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- Larry Niven
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...
26 de ene. de 2016 · In this novel, a central star ("Voy") is too close to its gas-giant planet ("Gold"), and the atmosphere of Gold has been sucked off into a gas torus, a vast ring around the star. The thicker part of the torus is breathable—this is the Smoke Ring where humans can survive.
- Larry Niven
