General Information
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 Title:                  The Integral Trees
 Author:                 Larry Niven
 Read By:                Pat Bottino
 Copyright:              1983
 Audiobook Copyright:    2006
 Genre:                  Science Fiction
 Publisher:              Blackstone Audio
 Series Name:            Known Space
 Position in Series:     01
 Abridged:               No

Original Media Information
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 Number:                 8
 Source:                 Library

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 Total Duration:         8:11:35
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Book Description
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Editorial Reviews
Product Description
“Niven has come up with an idea about as far out as one can get. . . . This is certainly classic science 
fiction–the idea is truly the hero.” –Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine

When leaving Earth, the crew of the spaceship Discipline was prepared for a routine assignment. Dispatched 
by the all-powerful State on a mission of interstellar exploration and colonization, Discipline was aided 
(and secretly spied upon) by Sharls Davis Kendy, an emotionless computer intelligence programmed to monitor 
the loyalty and obedience of the crew. But what they weren’t prepared for was the smoke ring–an 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. When 
Discipline encountered it, something went wrong. The crew abandoned ship and fled to the unlikely space oasis.
Five hundred years later, the descendants of the Discipline crew 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, Discipline waits patiently to make contact with its wayward [CENSORED]ren. 

From AudioFile
A complex plot, involving spacecraft sent out from Earth to prepare 
star systems for colonization; makes the story extremely interesting 
but sometimes difficult to follow in spite of Pat Bottino's excellent 
narration. S.C.A. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine