Tuf initially visits S’uthlam because the Ark is in dire need of repairs but learns of the ecological disaster looming over planet. The second story, Loaves and Fishes, tells of how Tuf meets the closest thing to his intellectual equal in Tolly Mune, a high ranking officer of S’uthlam, a planet on the brink of death, with dwindling resources and over-population. The man with a fascination for cats outwits all of them and finds himself a newly self-appointed Ecological Engineer. The first story The Plague Star recounts how Tuf acquires the ship when he signs on with a crew of scavengers and thieves. The Ark is an enormous space vessel, a relic of the Federal Ecological Engineering Corps.

Seven stories are included in this fix-up novel/book and are presented in chronological order of the events of Haviland Tuf and his acquisition of the Ark rather than publication order. In other words, Tuf Voyaging is a fix-up novel and a fine and entertaining batch of stories. Martin wrote about the large, bald man with a fascination for cats come together under one cover. In Tuf Voyaging, the short stories George R.R. In this far future, Tuf is practically the only honest man, or at least the only person who can view a situation with pure logic and no emotional entanglements. Of course, many of these people mistrust Haviland and think he has ulterior motives. Haviland Tuf is a simple trader and ecological engineer, offering solutions to planets whose ecosystem is in some sort of trouble.

Tuf Voyaging by George R.R. Martin