Free Floaters

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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