WHEN HE CAME BACK
FROM THE DEAD...
HE WISHED HE HADN'T

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 picked his time and made his own move. Once he was outbound, where the Society that ruled Earth could not reach him, he headed his starship toward the galactic core, where the unimaginable energies of the Universe wrenched the fabric of time and space and promised final escape from his captors.

Then he returned to an Earth eons older than the one he'd left... a planet that had had 3,000,000 years to develop perils he had never dreamed of - perils that became nightmares that he had to escape... somehow!

"TERRIFIC FUN!"
- Kirkus Reviews

A SCIENCE FICTION BOOK CLUB SELECTION

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!

AFTER THE FALL

In the free-fall environment of the Smoke Ring, the descendants of the crew of the Discipline no longer remembered their Earth roots - or the existence of Sharls Davis Kendy, the computer-program despot of the ship.  Until Kendy initiated contact once more.

Fourteen years later, only Jeffer, the Citizens Tree Scientist, knew that Kendy was still watching - and waiting.  Then the Citizens Tree people rescued a family of loggers and learned for the first time of the Admiralty, a large society living in free fall amid the floating debris called the Clump.  And it was likely that the Admiralty had maintained, intact, Discipline's original computer library.

Exploration was a temptation neither Jeffer nor Kendy could resist, and neither Citizens Tree nor Sharls Davis Kendy would ever be the same again...

FIRST TIME IN PAPERBACK