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The Smoke Ring
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The Smoke Ring

Автор: Niven Larry
Серия: Trees #2
Язык: английский
Год: 1987
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The setting of Niven’s 1984 novel The Integral Trees was striking and imaginative, even for this acclaimed world builder; it’s well worth the second visit made in this sequel. Around a neutron star an envelope of gas holds a breathable...
The Integral Trees
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The Integral Trees

Автор: Niven Larry
Серия: Trees #1
Язык: английский
Год: 1984
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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. The gas giant Goldblatt's World (abbreviated "Gold") orbits this star just outside its Roche sphere. Thus, Gold's gravity...