Description for THE INTEGRAL TREES by Larry Niven: INTRODUCING THE NEWEST WONDER OF THE UNIVERSE In any list of ten great science-fiction writers, four names are always at or near the top: Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert A. Heinlein--and Larry Niven. famed for his breadth of vision and the awesome extrapolation of his hard-science novels. Critics long thought Niven would find it difficult to surpass his Hugo-winning novel Ringworld--the story of an artificial world, a ribbon of unreasonably strong material 1 million miles wide and 600 million miles long... They were right. Until now, that is. In THE INTEGRAL TREES Niven presents a fully fleshed culture of evolved humans who live without real gravity in the gas torus that rotates about a neutron star. This is the novel his fans have been awaiting!
