· Niven, one of the princes of 'hard' sf, appeals to the aficionado's delight in working out a basic premise with rigor, yet with unforeseen angles." - Gregory Benford, The Los Angeles Times The concept of a human society evolved to inhabit a free-fall environment remains in clear focus; The Integral Trees is a convincing piece of environmental engineering by one of the masters of the art."/5(8). The Integral Trees (The Smoke Ring series Book 1) - Kindle edition by Niven, Larry. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Integral Trees (The Smoke Ring series Book 1)/5(). The people here live on giant km long floating trees in a weightless gas cloud. The trees spin and provide artificial gravity. The reason the trees are called integral trees is because the two tufts of foliage on opposite ends curve in opposite directions (due to spinning in /5.
Larry Niven has a knack for creating unique worlds that are not planets. Ringworld was the first and in the Integral Trees, we are introduced to a world that is essentially a gas ring surrounding a star. The Integral Trees kicks off with promising material - neat diagrams of the world to help the reader picture it and a fun hunting action sequence with a terrifying alien bltadwin.ru's fast-paced, with enough details about the world - and it's unusual physics - to show that our characters are either human or very nearly, but that their world is something totally other. The Integral Trees by Larry Niven starting at $ The Integral Trees has 5 available editions to buy at Half Price Books Marketplace.
Larry Niven was born in in Los Angeles, bltadwin.ru , he entered the California Institute of Technology, only to flunk out a year and a half later after discovering a bookstore jammed with used science-fiction magazines. Niven sets up the world he creates in The Integral Trees, and there is character development. The Integral Trees is a science fiction novel by American writer Larry Niven (first published as a serial in Analog in ). 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. A sequel, The Smoke Ring, was published in
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