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This is Wilbur Smith in space; but another guilty teenage pleasure of mine.
A ripping yarn of space adventure; oiled bodies and quaintly antiquated gender stereotypes.
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My #top100 #scifi Num:55 The integral Trees
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The Smoke Ring is a free-fall environment. A Jupiter-sized planet which once orbited the systems neutron star, ripped apart by hideous gravities, now exists as a hoop of habitable gas.
Tribes of humans, separated from technology have gone native.
What a backstory!
My #top100 #scifi Num:56 The Smoke Ring
Amazon: http://amzn.to/2dmW4pz 
An infinite universe will be full of surprises. The Smoke Ring is such a wonder. Like the Ring World, it’s another solar system scale torus, but even further from familiar terra firma – there is no ground in this free fall ring of gas.
It’s also a great story with believable characters doing what humans do best, against all the odds.