Larry Niven’s 80s sci-fi adventures The Integral Trees and The Smoke Ring take place not on a planet, but in a stable torus of gas orbiting a star. These colossal trees and their inhabitants are in constant weightlessness and no sense of up or down. I could see these getting the CG movie treatment someday. It’d be fun to see in motion.
If someone’s makin’ a Niven movie, they’re doin’ Ringworld.
But the Integral Trees would make a better spectacle on the big screen.
If someone’s makin’ a Niven movie, they’re doin’ Ringworld.
Wouldn’t that just be Halo, lol
I don’t follow sci-fi novels, but it seems this Larry Niven guy has a knack for well-realized worlds in interesting situations. They’re good thought experiments. If a movie is made of one of his novels, they had better get the physics perfect.
Niven didn’t even get the physics perfect. He had to write a sequel to Ringworld because of how many fans pointed out how it wasn’t stable.
That reminds me of Baxter’s The Raft.
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…i always wondered whether belly’s feed the tree was a reference to this book…
Oh, @MichaelWhelan@mastodon.art is on Mastodon! If you like this, you’ll want to read what the artist has to say about it.
