The Integral Trees - The Smoke Ring by Larry Niven

Author:Larry Niven [Niven, Larry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780345460363
Publisher: Del Rey Books; Random House
Published: 1983-01-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

THE SILVER SUIT

from the Admiralty cassettes, year 3 SM:

We were chosen for this. No citizen leaves Earth orbit until the State has learned his tolerance for free fall. One in ten thousand have the genetic quirks to survive months or years of free fall without softening of the bones, without failure of the digestive system, without the terror of falling.

We served the State by flying to the stars. When the drive was off we played at flying, while cramped in a seeder ramship with barely room to flap our arms. Here is real flight. Of course the Smoke Ring seems an incredible dream come true—to us.

—Sharon Levoy, Astrogation

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