The Smoke Ring Audiobook (Free)

In the free-fall environment from the Smoke Ring, descendants from the crew of the Discipline no longer remember their Earth origins or the existence of Sharls Davis Kendy, the computer-program despot of the ship-until Kendy initiates contact once more.

Fourteen years later, only Jeffer, the People Tree Scientist, knows that Kendy is still watching and waiting. Then, when the Citizens Tree people rescue a family group of loggers, they find out for the first time of the Admiralty, a large society surviving in free of charge fall amid the floating particles called the Clump. It is likely the Admiralty has managed, intact, Discipline’s primary computer library. Exploration is certainly a temptation neither Jeffer nor Kendy can withstand, and neither People Tree nor Sharls Davis Kendy will ever become the same once again.

“Niven has produce an idea on the subject of as far out as one may get…This is obviously classic research fiction-the idea is actually the hero.”-Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine