"A complex plot, involving spacecraft sent out from Earth to prepare star systems for
colonization; makes the story extremely interesting[and]Pat Bottino's excellent narration."
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"Niven's masterly use of sf strategies once more hits every note"Los Angeles Times

The Smoke Ring seemed a paradise to the restless crew of Discipline and so they fled to it,
leaving behind only the ship and Sharls Davis Kendy, the ship's cyborg cop. Five centuries passed,
and most of the mutineers' descendants forgot about the Earth, the State, even Discipline.
But Sharls Davis Kendy never forgot about the humans, and somewhere, just outside the Smoke Ring,
he waited.

Larry Niven is the multiple Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of the Ringworld series, along with many other science-fiction masterpieces. His Beowulf's Children, co-authored with Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes, was a New York Times best-seller. He lives in Chatsworth, California.