Tuf Voyaging inadvertently becomes the master of the Ark, an ancient, 30-kilometre-long "seedship" – a very powerful warship with advanced ecological engineering capabilities – after a deal with several venal and cutthroat traders goes awry.
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Stories in Tuf Voyaging are set in the same fictional "Thousand Worlds" universe as several of Martin's other works, including Dying of the Light, Sandkings.
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In 2006, Tuf Voyaging was nominated for a Seiun Award in Japan for translated long form novel.
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Meanwhile, Waan, Lion, and Tuf Voyaging have found the armory, but have split up due to disagreements on leadership.
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Tuf Voyaging recognizes that Mushroom is infected by the plagues and is dying, and kills him gently, preventing Mushroom's further suffering.
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Tuf Voyaging discovers the cloning room of the seedship, and clones Mushroom using the ship's equipment, naming the new cat Chaos.
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Disbelieving Tuf Voyaging's warning, she takes her helmet off and contracts a plague.
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Tuf Voyaging then offers Tuf the chance to leave peacefully, but on his refusal, attempts to kill him with the psi-controlled T Rex.
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Tuf Voyaging then takes control of the seedship as the only surviving claimant.
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Haviland Tuf Voyaging takes his newly-acquired seedship, which he has named the Ark, to the world of S'uthlam for extensive repairs.
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Tuf Voyaging makes a bet with Tuf – if he will solve S'uthlam's impending famine, she will return his cat and give him monetary credits for the ship's repairs.
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Mune, disgusted with the politics of the situation, assists Tuf Voyaging in escaping from S'uthlam, despite the fact that this places her in a precarious position.
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Tuf Voyaging informs her that he will return to pay off his debt.
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Tuf Voyaging finds himself at Namor, an oceanic world where sea monsters are attacking the local population.
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Tuf Voyaging's hand is forced, and he unleashes a barrage of other creatures to directly counteract the monsters.
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Tuf Voyaging establishes communications with the mudpots and brokers a peace agreement whereby his human employers agree to cease eating the planet's autochthonous intelligent species.
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Tuf Voyaging gives the leaders of Namor psionically-enhanced kittens to facilitate their dealings with the mudpots, and departs.
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Tuf Voyaging is hailed as a hero due to the advancements in the overcrowded world's food production, now known as "Tuf's Flowering".
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Tuf Voyaging insists on delivering a planet-wide speech detailing the enhancements he had in mind for S'uthlam and concluding with an explicit admonition:.
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Tuf Voyaging is approached by Herold Norn, senior beastmaster of the Norn House of Lyronica.
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Tuf Voyaging gets the last laugh, as the introduction of the various prey species into each House's territory irrevocably changes the regional ecosystem such that all become incapable of sustaining the large predators upon which the gladiatorial contests had originally depended, thus leading to the end of the Bronze Arena.
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Tuf Voyaging later tells a horrified Mune that the manna will indeed feed her people, but will inhibit the libidos of the S'uthlamese and cause widespread, but not universal, infertility.
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Tuf Voyaging says that she wouldn't trust the leaders of her world with the potentially terrible biowarfare capabilities of Ark.
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Finally, in "Manna from Heaven", he provides the S'uthlamese and their enemies with an irrevocable solution that simultaneously averts both famine and war but covertly imposes birth control upon the "religious crazies" of S'uthlam's Church of Life Evolving, forcing Mune to accept Tuf Voyaging's induced population implosion as the only alternative to social breakdown and genocide.
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Tuf Voyaging hinted that he thought Irish actor Conleth Hill, who plays Varys on HBO's Game of Thrones, based on his bestselling A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy series, would be a good choice to play Tuf.
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