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Zones of Thought

Thousands of years from now, 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.

Vernor Vinge won two Hugo Awards, a John W. Campbell Award and a Prometheus Award for A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky.

 

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    • The Children of the Sky

    • Zones of Thought (Volume 3)
      Vernor Vinge
      Tor/Forge

    • The Children of the Sky continues the epic scifi adventure of Hugo award-winning A Fire Upon the Deep!

      “Vinge is one of the best visionary writers of SF today.” —David...

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  • A Deepness in the Sky
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    • A Deepness in the Sky

    • Zones of Thought (Volume 2)
      Vernor Vinge
      Tor/Forge

    • After thousands of years searching, humans stand on the verge of first contact with an alien race. Two human groups: the Qeng Ho, a culture of free traders, and the Emergents, a ruthless society...

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  • A Fire Upon The Deep
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    • A Fire Upon The Deep

    • Zones of Thought (Volume 1)
      Vernor Vinge
      Tor/Forge

    • In this popular and widely praised novel, a rescue mission races against time to save a pair of human children being held captive by a medieval lupine race-and to recover the weapon that will keep the universe from being changed forever.

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    • The Zones of Thought Series

    • Zones of Thought
      Vernor Vinge
      Tor/Forge

    • This discounted ebundle includes: A Fire Upon the Deep, The Children of the Sky, A Deepness in the Sky

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    • After the Battle on Starship Hill

    • Zones of Thought
      Vernor Vinge
      Tor/Forge

    • "After the Battle on Starship Hill" is more than 12000 words of prologue from Vernor Vinge's forthcoming novel, The Children of the Sky. Taking place on Tines World, this mini e-book describes...

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A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge--Audio Excerpt

Listen to this audiobook excerpt from Vernor Vinge's science fiction novel A Fire Upon the Deep, winner of the 1993 Hugo Award for Best Novel. A Fire Upon the Deep is the big, breakout book that fulfills the promise of Vinge's career to date: a gripping tale of galactic war told on a cosmic scale. 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 D

Vernor Vinge

Vernor Vinge has won five Hugo Awards, including one for each of his last three novels, A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), A Deepness in the Sky (1999), and Rainbow’s End (2006). 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 Marooned in Realtime and The Peace War. Born in Waukesha, Wisconsin and raised in Central Michigan, Vinge is the son of geographers. Fascinated by science and particularly computers from an early age, he has a Ph.D. in computer science, and taught mathematics and computer science at San Diego State University for thirty years. He has gained a great deal of attention both here and abroad for his theory of the coming machine intelligence Singularity. Sought widely as a speaker to both business and scientific groups, he lives in San Diego, California.

Gloria Price

Vernor Vinge

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