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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
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Apr 1, 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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Jan 26, 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.
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Jan 1, 2001 · 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.
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Dec 1, 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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