A Fire Upon the Deep - (Zones of Thought) by Vernor Vinge (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>From a four-time Hugo Award-winning author comes this "New York Times" Notable Book of the Year--a space saga awesome in conception, and a riveting novel of conflict, love, loss, and survival. Reissue.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>A Hugo award-winning Novel!</b> <p/><b>"Vinge is one of the best visionary writers of SF today." </b>--<b>David Brin</b> <p/>Thousands of years in the future, humanity is no longer alone in a universe where a mind's potential is determined by its location in space, from superintelligent entities in the Transcend, to the limited minds of the Unthinking Depths, where only simple creatures, and technology, can function. Nobody knows what strange force partitioned space into these regions of thought, but when the warring Straumli realm use an ancient Transcendent artifact as a weapon, they unwittingly unleash an awesome power that destroys thousands of worlds and enslaves all natural and artificial intelligence. <p/>Fleeing this galactic threat, Ravna crash lands on a strange world with a ship-hold full of cryogenically frozen children, the only survivors from a destroyed space-lab. They are taken captive by the Tines, an alien race with a harsh medieval culture, and used as pawns in a ruthless power struggle. <p/><b>Tor books by Vernor Vinge</b> <p/><b>Zones of Thought Series</b><br><i>A Fire Upon The Deep </i><br><i>A Deepness In The Sky </i><br><i>The Children of The Sky </i> <p/><b>Realtime/Bobble Series</b><br><i>The Peace War</i><br><i>Marooned in Realtime</i> <p/><b>Other Novels</b><br><i>The Witling</i><br><i>Tatja Grimm's World</i><br><i>Rainbows End</i> <p/><b>Collections</b><br><i>Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge</i><br><i>True Names </i></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Fleeing a menace of galactic proportions, a spaceship crashes on an unfamiliar world, leaving the survivors--a pair of children--to the not-so-tender mercies of a medieval, lupine race. Responding to the crippled ship's distress signal, a rescue mission races against time to retrieve the children and recover the weapon they need to prevent the universe from being changed forever. Against a background depicting a space-time continuum stratified into 'zones of thought, ' the author has created a rarity--a unique blend of hard science, high drama, and superb storytelling." --<i>Library Journal</i> <p/>"A tale that burns with the brazen energy of the best space operas of the golden age. Vinge has created a galaxy for the readers of the '90s to believe in...immense, ancient, athrum with data webs, dotted with wonders." --<i>John Clute, Interzone</i> <p/>"Vernor Vinge's best novel yet." --Greg Bear, author of Moving Mars <p/>"Vast, riveting, far-future saga...The overall concept astonishes; the aliens are developed with memorable skill and insight, the plot twists and turns with unputdownable tension. A masterpiece of universe building." --<i>Kirkus Reviews</i> <p/>"The first grand SF I've read in ages...Vinge is one of the best visionary writers of SF today." --<i>David Brin, author of Earth</i> <p/>"Fiercely original...Compelling ideas in the book include problems and advantages of group mind, galactic communications turbidity, and the prospect of civilizations aspiring to godhood." --Stewart Brand, founder of the Whole Earth Catalog</p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Vernor Vinge</b> has won five Hugo Awards, two of them in the Zones of Thought series: <i>A Fire Upon the Deep</i> and <i>A Deepness in the Sky</i>. Known for his rigorous hard-science approach to his science fiction, he became an iconic figure among cybernetic scientists with the publication in 1981 of his novella True Names, which is considered a seminal, visionary work of Internet fiction. His many books also include <i>Marooned in Realtime</i>, <i>Rainbows End</i> and <i>The Peace War</i>.
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