Status
Available
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Collection
Publication
Del Rey (1988), Mass Market Paperback
Description
In the free-fall environment of 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. Fourteen years later, only Jeffer, the Citizens Tree Scientist, knew that Kendy was still watching-and waiting. Then the Citizens Tree people rescued a family of loggers and learned for the first time of the Admiralty, a large society living in free fall amid the floating debris called the Clump. And it was likely that the Admiralty had maintained, intact, Dicipline's original computer library. Exploration was a temptation neither Jeffer nor Kendy could resist, and neither citizens Tree nor Sharls Davis Kendy would ever be the same again.… (more)
Media reviews
NBD / Biblion
Een aardse expeditie is eeuwen geleden gestrand in een vreemdsoortig zonnestelsel. Rond een neutronenster bevindt zich een gastorus; het binnenste deel daarvan, de 'Rookkring', heeft een aardse atmosfeer. Daar zweven de 'integraalbomen': enorme bomen van tientallen kilometers lengte in de vorm van
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het integraalteken uit de wiskunde met aan beide uiteinden een kruin, waarin de nakomelingen van de kolonisten wonen. Het eerste deel, De integraalbomen (a.i. 86-05-145-8) beschrijft hoe de bewoners van een boom zich in veiligheid brengen als hun boom sterft. In dit - niet zelfstandig leesbare - vervolg wordt verteld hoe ze in contact komen met een veel verder gevorderde beschaving in de Rookkring. Fascinerende wetenschappelijk-technologische science fiction. Een derde deel is in de VS aangekondigd.
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User reviews
LibraryThing member jclark88
The sequel to The Integral Trees is every bit as imaginative as the first book. If you like Larry Niven you'll love this book and this series.
LibraryThing member isabelx
East takes you Out, Out takes you West, West takes you In, In takes you East. Port and Starboard bring you back.
Fourteen years after the events of "The Integral Trees" and the founding of the small community of Citizens Tree, Kendy, the A.I. on the on the spaceship Discipline decides that it is
The pacing of the story doesn't really work for me. I thought it dragged in the middle, then finished in a rush, I was a bit bored by the interminable descriptions of Admiralty and logger technology and the final revelation of how the Discpline's crew came to live in the Smoke Ring came as a bit of an anticlimax, so overall I didn't enjoy it quite as much as "The Integral Trees". As for East takes you out, even after reading the explanations while studying the maps and diagrams at the beginning of the book, I still haven't got my head round the way directions work in the Smoke Ring, but that's probably down to me rather than the author, as I have always had really bad spatial awareness.
Fourteen years after the events of "The Integral Trees" and the founding of the small community of Citizens Tree, Kendy, the A.I. on the on the spaceship Discipline decides that it is
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time to make a move and stats trying to influence the future of the small communities of humans scattered about the Smoke Ring. Kendy can't remember his crew leaving the ship 500 earth years ago because he has inexplicably wiped that part of his memory, but he assumes that they mutinied against him. However the records left by the crew in their early years in the Smoke Ring seem to suggest otherwise. The pacing of the story doesn't really work for me. I thought it dragged in the middle, then finished in a rush, I was a bit bored by the interminable descriptions of Admiralty and logger technology and the final revelation of how the Discpline's crew came to live in the Smoke Ring came as a bit of an anticlimax, so overall I didn't enjoy it quite as much as "The Integral Trees". As for East takes you out, even after reading the explanations while studying the maps and diagrams at the beginning of the book, I still haven't got my head round the way directions work in the Smoke Ring, but that's probably down to me rather than the author, as I have always had really bad spatial awareness.
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LibraryThing member keithkv
Having read the first book in this short series (The Integral Trees) and another of his works (Ringworld), I have to say that his ideas are brilliant and imaginative. That being said, the plot and his writing is a bit bland. But the concepts behind the writing was enough to capture my imagination
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LibraryThing member AmbitiousLemon
I feel like there is still room for another in the series.
LibraryThing member buffalogr
like it's predecessor, Integral Trees, I istened to this book for awhile; it never really gelled in my mind and I had better things to do then listen to "Charlie Brown's teacher." Put this one in the category of "did not finish." While the teaser held promise, it never developed.
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1987-05
Physical description
237 p.; 17.4 cm
ISBN
0345302575 / 9780345302571
Local notes
Omslag: Michael Whelan
Omslaget viser en ung mand, der rækker ud efter en ung kvinde formentlig for at redde hende fra et flyvende hajlignende væsen - det hele foregår i gasskyen omkring en neutronstjerne
Indskannet omslag - N650U - 150 dpi
Omslaget viser en ung mand, der rækker ud efter en ung kvinde formentlig for at redde hende fra et flyvende hajlignende væsen - det hele foregår i gasskyen omkring en neutronstjerne
Indskannet omslag - N650U - 150 dpi
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Pages
237
DDC/MDS
| 813.54 |