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This book is dedicated to Robert Forward, for the stories he's sparked in me, for his help in working out the parameters of the Smoke Ring and for his big roomy mind.













A Del Rey Book
Published by Ballantine Books

Copyright (c) 1983 by Larry Niven



All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Ballantine Books a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

Diagrams by Shelly Shapiro

Manufactured in the United States of America
Contents
Prologue: Discipline 1
Chapter One: Quinn Tuft 5
Chapter Two: Leavetaking 18
Chapter Three: The Trunk 27
Chapter Four: Flashers and Fan Fungus 36
Chapter Five: Memories 45
Chapter Si.x Middle Ground 52
Chapter Seven. The Checker's Hand 63
Chapter Eight: Quinn Tribe 69
Chapter Nine: The Raft . 78
Chapter Ten: The Moby 89
Chapter Eleven: The Cotton-Candy Jungle 97
Chapter Twelve: The Copsik Runners 105
Chapter Thirteen.- The Scientist's Apprentice 114
Chapter Fourteen. Treemouth and Citadel 123
Chapter F(fteen. London Tree 131
Chapter Sixteen: Rumblings of Mutiny 140
Chapter Seventeen. "When Birnhain Wood . . ." 149
Chapter Eighteen.- The War of London Tree 158
Chapter Nineteen: The Silver Man 168
Chapter Twenty: The Position of Scientist's
Apprentice . . . 178
Chapter Twenty-one: Go For Gold 189