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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://wandering.shop/users/kagan/statuses/111161447617629252">Kagan MacTane (he/him) (kagan@wandering.shop)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 06:44:58 JST</a><a href="https://wandering.shop/@kagan" title="kagan@wandering.shop"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/82149-48-20231106212055.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Kagan MacTane (he/him)" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Kagan MacTane (he/him)</a><div><a href="https://wandering.shop/@kagan/111161294950145595" rel="in-reply-to">in reply to</a></div></section><article><p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" rel="tag">#WritersCoffeeClub</a> (Sep) 7: Share an image of a favourite book cover design. Not your own.</p><p>The Integral Trees, by Larry Niven. Part of what I like about this cover for is that Niven says he was once in a bookstore and overheard someone looking at the cover and saying, "Oh, a fantasy novel." And he thought, Nope! Hard SF... just in a *very strange* place. (Check out the notes on the setting: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Integral_Trees" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Integral_Trees</a>. It's a very strange place, indeed!)</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/2712122#notice-5380621">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-02-14T06:44:58+09:00" title="Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 06:44:58 JST">about a year ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://wandering.shop/@kagan/111161447617629252" rel="external" title="Sent from wandering.shop via ActivityPub">wandering.shop</a></span></span><a href="https://wandering.shop/@kagan/111161447617629252">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/2255039">Wraparound cover for The Integral Trees, by Larry Niven. The right side of the image, which would be the front cover on the actual book, shows a slender, blond humanoid person wearing green pants and vest, floating gently in mid-air. Their arms are stretched out and their hands casually draped over a spear that rests on their shoulders. Their feet are bare; one is dangling down near the bottom edge of the image, while the other is using its toes to grasp a cable that connects to the end of the spear. There's what looks like a crossbow behind the person's head. They overall look sort of like an elf, but their clothing has lots of bulky pockets, so their vest looks like tactical gear and their pants are reminiscent of army BDUs.Behind them is a lot of greenery, but it's all puffy and there's no trunk or branches visible. There's some sky, but it's down in the bottom left corner, not at the top.On the left side (back cover), that sky continues and there are lots of puffy clouds, but no ground anywhere. A random-looking plant structure from the front side turns out to be a trunk-like or wooden shaft that appears to be many miles long, and possibly monumental in scale. It has a blocky spacecraft docking at a rectangular port or notch carved into the wood.Text on the front and spine says "The Integral Trees" and "Larry Niven"; there's no back cover blurb on this image. There's a Del Rey publisher's logo at the bottom of the spine.</a></label><br><a href="https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/111/161/386/086/957/702/original/7e040dc30b82f62d.jpg" rel="external">https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/111/161/386/086/957/702/original/7e040dc30b82f62d.jpg</a></li><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: upload.wikimedia.org</div><h5><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Integral_Trees">The Integral Trees</a></h5><div></div></header><div>The Integral Trees is a 1984 science fiction novel by American writer Larry Niven (first published as a serial in Analog in 1983).  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.  A sequel, The Smoke Ring, was published in 1987.
It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1984, and the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1985.Setting
The story occurs around the fictional neutron star Levoy's Star (abbreviated "Voy"). The gas giant Goldblatt's World (abbreviated "Gold") orbits this star just outside its Roche limit and therefore its gravity is insufficient to keep its atmosphere, which is pulled loose into an independent orbit around Voy and forms a ring that is known as a gas torus. The gas torus is huge—one million kilometers thick—but most of it is too thin to be habitable. The central part of the Gas Torus, where the air is thicker, is known as the Smoke Ring. The Smoke Ring supports a wide variety of life.
No "ground" exists in the Smoke Ring; it consists entirely of sky. Furthermore, the Smoke Ring is in orbit...</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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The Integral Trees, by Larry Niven. Part of what I like about this cover for is that Niven says he was once in a bookstore and overheard someone looking at the cover and saying, "Oh, a fantasy novel." And he thought, Nope! Hard SF... just in a *very strange* place. (Check out the notes on the setting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Integral_Trees. It's a very strange place, indeed!)
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1. Wraparound cover for The Integral Trees, by Larry Niven. The right side of the image, which would be the front cover on the actual book, shows a slender, blond humanoid person wearing green pants and vest, floating gently in mid-air. Their arms are stretched out and their hands casually draped over a spear that rests on their shoulders. Their feet are bare; one is dangling down near the bottom edge of the image, while the other is using its toes to grasp a cable that connects to the end of the spear. There's what looks like a crossbow behind the person's head. They overall look sort of like an elf, but their clothing has lots of bulky pockets, so their vest looks like tactical gear and their pants are reminiscent of army BDUs. Behind them is a lot of greenery, but it's all puffy and there's no trunk or branches visible. There's some sky, but it's down in the bottom left corner, not at the top. On the left side (back cover), that sky continues and there are lots of puffy clouds, but no ground anywhere. A random-looking plant structure from the front side turns out to be a trunk-like or wooden shaft that appears to be many miles long, and possibly monumental in scale. It has a blocky spacecraft docking at a rectangular port or notch carved into the wood. Text on the front and spine says "The Integral Trees" and "Larry Niven"; there's no back cover blurb on this image. There's a Del Rey publisher's logo at the bottom of the spine.
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  The Integral Trees is a 1984 science fiction novel by American writer Larry Niven (first published as a serial in Analog in 1983). 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. A sequel, The Smoke Ring, was published in 1987. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1984, and the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1985. Setting The story occurs around the fictional neutron star Levoy's Star (abbreviated "Voy"). The gas giant Goldblatt's World (abbreviated "Gold") orbits this star just outside its Roche limit and therefore its gravity is insufficient to keep its atmosphere, which is pulled loose into an independent orbit around Voy and forms a ring that is known as a gas torus. The gas torus is huge—one million kilometers thick—but most of it is too thin to be habitable. The central part of the Gas Torus, where the air is thicker, is known as the Smoke Ring. The Smoke Ring supports a wide variety of life. No "ground" exists in the Smoke Ring; it consists entirely of sky. Furthermore, the Smoke Ring is in orbit...

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