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A Fire Upon the Deep
Vernor Vinge
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Description for A Fire Upon the Deep
Paperback. The Hugo Award-winning masterpiece of modern space opera - a gripping tale of galactic war told on a cosmic scale. Series: S.F. Masterworks. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Thousands of years hence, many races inhabit 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 'zones of thought', but when the warring Straumli realm use an ancient Transcendent artefact as a weapon, they unwittingly unleash an awesome power that destroys thousands of worlds and enslaves all natural and artificial intelligence. Fleeing the threat, a ... Read more
Thousands of years hence, many races inhabit 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 'zones of thought', but when the warring Straumli realm use an ancient Transcendent artefact as a weapon, they unwittingly unleash an awesome power that destroys thousands of worlds and enslaves all natural and artificial intelligence. Fleeing the threat, a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Number of pages
608
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
S.F. Masterworks
Condition
New
Number of Pages
608
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781473211957
SKU
V9781473211957
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About Vernor Vinge
Vernor Vinge (1944 - ) Vernor Steffen Vinge was born in Wisconsin in 1944. He is a retired San Diego State University Professor of Mathematics, a computer scientist and science fiction author. He is best known for his two epic space operas A Fire Upon the Deep (1992) and A Deepness in the Sky (1999), both of which ... Read more
Reviews for A Fire Upon the Deep
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 - Interzone The first grand SF I've read in ages . ... Read more