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The State Series

Embark on a journey into a future shaped by advanced technology and profound societal shifts. This series follows individuals awakened into alien realities, grappling with radical changes to humanity and existence itself. Prepare for grand adventures spanning vast distances and immense time scales, challenging the very concepts of self and civilization. It's a mind-bending exploration of survival and evolution in the face of the unknown.

The Integral Trees
De rookring
The Smoke Ring
The Integral Tress
A World Out Of Time

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  1. 1

    A World Out Of Time

    • 286 pages
    • 11 hours of reading
    4.1(11)Add rating

    After 200 years in cryosleep, Jaybee Corbell awakens to find that his mind has been downloaded to another body and he's in servitude to a harsh future State. After his escape via a spaceship, he traverses such vast distances--with accompanying time dilations--that he returns to Earth 3 million years later to discover a world wholly alien to the one he'd left. A.E. van Vogt wrote, "This fantastic novel is a mix of Niven hard science and a time-travel concept to boggle the mind." "Larry Niven is one of the giants of modern science fiction." - Mike Resnick "His tales have grit, authenticity, colorful characters and pulse-pounding narrative drive. Niven is a true master " - Frederik Pohl "Niven's intoxicating concepts, ideas, scientific extrapolations, and exotic hardware buffle up from every page. Rich in imagination and astonishing in breath ... will challenge the most sophisticated readers." - ALA Booklist "This fantastic novel is a mix of Niven hard science and a time-travel concept to boggle the mind...even after the last line the feeling remains of the story still rushing on into the magic distance of the universe." - A.E. van Vogt "Terrific fun " - Kirkus Reviews

    A World Out Of Time
  2. 2

    The Integral Tress

    3.8(8847)Add rating

    When leaving Earth, the crew of the spaceship Discipline was prepared for a routine assignment. Dispatched by 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 programmed to monitor the loyalty and obedience of the crew. But what they weren’t prepared for was the smoke ring–an immense gaseous envelope that had formed around a neutron star directly in their path. The Smoke Ring was home to a variety of plant and animal life-forms evolved to thrive in conditions of continual free-fall. When Discipline encountered it, something went wrong. The crew abandoned ship and fled to the unlikely space oasis. Five hundred years later, the descendants of the Discipline crew living on the Smoke Ring no longer remember their origins. Earth is more myth than memory, and no recollection of the State remains. But Kendy remembers. And just outside the Smoke Ring, Discipline waits patiently to make contact with its wayward children.

    The Integral Tress
  3. 3

    The Smoke Ring

    • 323 pages
    • 12 hours of reading
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    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

    The Smoke Ring
  4. 3

    De rookring

    • 292 pages
    • 11 hours of reading

    Vijfhonderd jaar hing het cyborgschip Discipline boven de wereld van de integraalbomen en al die tijd bespioneerde de cyborg Shards Davis Kendy de afstammelingen van zijn ooit als muiters gevluchte bemanning. Toen zag hij eindelijk zijn kans schoon om in te grijpen. Op die afstand kon hij niet veel invloed aanwenden, en het werd dan ook niet duidelijk of de gelukkige afloop van het avontuur in De integraalbomen dank zij, of juist ondanks hem was. Nog is niet bekend – en weet hij het zelf ? – of hij in die vijf eeuwen wijzer is geworden, of dat hij nog steeds denkt dat mensen met straffe hand geregeerd moeten worden tot heil van de Staat. De bewoners van de integraalbomen zullen het merken… Rond de neutronster Voy roteert een immense gaswolk in de vorm van een ring. In het dichtste deel ervan, de Rookring, is het goed leven. In vrije val, want vaste grond is zeldzaam in de wolk. Alles zweeft en veel ervan is eetbaar en kan vliegen De eerste mensen die uit Discipline vluchtten, beitelden zich een eenvoudig maar gerieflijk bestaan op en rond de kilometers-lange zwevende bomen die langzaam door de wolk wentelen. Geleidelijk neemt hun aantal toe, ze ontwikkelen verschillende beschavingen en na eeuwen ontdekken de afzonderlijke groepen elkaar…complicaties blijven niet uit. Een nieuw degelijk boek en spannend SF-avontuur van de meesterbedenker van ‘vreemde werelden’

    De rookring

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    • 459 pages
    • 17 hours of reading
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