Free Floaters
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Publication date:
2002-08
Publication type:
Novella
Published:
Asimov's Science Fiction, August 2002
Setting:
Walker & Keenan
Characters:
Walker & Keenan
Summary:
Larry Niven teams with writer Brenda Cooper once again in this sequel to "Ice and Mirrors," featuring a small crew being sent to make contact with an alien species for the purposes of trade. This particular species lives in a habitable cloud band on a jovian-type planet or "free floater", i.e. a planet which has formed out of an interstellar cloud without the accompanying heat and light of a star system.
Notes:
Collaboration, co-written with Brenda Cooper. Sequel to Ice and Mirrors
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