The Integral Trees Audiobook (Free)

Leaving Globe, the staff of the spaceship Discipline were prepared to get a routine assignment. Dispatched from 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 designed to monitor the devotion and obedience of the staff. What they weren’t ready for, nevertheless, was the Smoke Ring-an huge, gaseous envelope that experienced shaped around a neutron superstar directly in their path. The Smoke Band was home to a number of flower and pet life-forms advanced to flourish in conditions of continual free of charge fall. When Discipline came across it, something proceeded to go wrong. The staff abandoned dispatch and fled to the unlikely space oasis.

Five hundred years later, the descendants of the Discipline crew living for the Smoke Ring no more remember their origins. Globe is more myth than memory, and no recollection from the State continues to be. But Kendy remembers. And outside the Smoke cigarettes Ring, Discipline waits patiently to get hold of its wayward children.