Larry Niven · series
The State books in order
The future-history sequence involving the State and the Smoke Ring.
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- 1 A World Out of Time
Book 1 · novel · 1976
Jaybee Corbell awoke after more than 200 years as a corpsicle -- in someone else's body, and under sentence of instant annihilation if he made a wrong move while they were training him for a one-way mission to the stars. But Corbell…
- 2 The Integral Trees
Book 2 · novel · 1984
A culture of evolved humans inhabits a doughnut-shaped gas tube that rotates around a neutron star
- 3 The Smoke Ring
Book 3 · novel · 1987
The Citizens Tree people rescue a family of loggers and learn for the first time of a society known as the Admiralty, which may have maintained intact the original computer library of the ship Discipline.
