"An excellent and intricate story that provides further evidence that Vinge has become one of the major voices in modern SF."
--Science Fiction Chronicle on A Deepness in the Sky
"This is top-drawer hard SF--fast-paced, packed with action, intellectually
challenging and, above all, capable of invoking SF's grail: a genuine sense
of wonder."
--Publishers Weekly "Top 10 of 1999" on A Deepness in the Sky
"This new epic shares the breadth of imagination and vivid storytelling which made the earlier book so justly popular."
--The Denver Post on A Deepness in the Sky
"Sporting enough action for a dozen Star Wars sequels, A Deepness in the Sky is filled with unsettling images of mind control and slavery."
--The Dallas Morning News
"An ingenious and engaging tale of epic proportions, the kind of feast that fans of true science fiction have been hungry for for a long time."
--SFSite on A Deepness in the Sky
"A masterful novel. Breathtaking, one of the premier science fiction novels of the past few years. Vinge is truly an original writer."
--NOVA Express on A Deepness in the Sky
"Wow! A Deepness in the Sky is his best book yet and is a damn good example of what first-rate SF can be. Besides a good story with good characters, Vinge has enough throwaway ideas in the background for any three books."
--Aboriginal SF
“Vast, riveting far-future saga involving evil gods, interstellar war, and manipulative aliens. No summary can do justice to the depth and conviction of Vinge's ideas. The overall concept astonishes; the aliens are developed with memorable skill and insight; the plot twists and turns with unputdownable tension.”
--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) on A Fire Upon the Deep
“With uninterrupted pacing, suspense without contrivance, and deftly drawn aliens who can be pleasantly comical without becoming cute, Vinge offers heart-pounding, mind-expanding science fiction at its best.”
--Publishers Weekly (Starred review) on A Fire Upon the Deep
"A wide-screen science fiction epic of the type few writers attempt any more, probably because nobody until Vinge has ever done it well. Has Hugo Winner written all over it."
--Washington Post Book World on A Fire Upon the Deep
