The Integral Trees

, #1

Hardcover, 240 pages

English language

Published March 1984 by Del Rey.

ISBN:
978-0-345-31270-9
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OCLC Number:
470700333
ISFDB ID:
1709

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For a long, long time the State used slower-than-light spacecraft to prepare star systems for colonization by Man. Normally the ramseeders traveled centuries-long circuits which began and ended at Earth. Normally the mixed crew of citizens and "corpsicle" convicts remained with their ship. Normally ultimate control of the mission was exercised by a built-in cyborg "adviser," the true despot of the tiny State microcosm that was the ship.

But little happened normally when Discipline reached the double-star system of T3 and LeVoy's Star. There an immense doughnut-shaped gaseous envelope had formed around a neutron star—and a vast volume of that nearly empty cloud was comfortably habitable to Man. Though it had very little usable land, the Smoke Ring had evolved a huge variety of free-fall lifeforms, most of which were edible and all of which could fly.

The Smoke Ring seemed a paradise to the restless crew of Discipline and …

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