A Fire Upon The Deep
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ISBN10: 0812515285
ISBN13: 9780812515282
Mass Market Paperbound
624 Pages
$11.99
CA$15.99
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Winner of the Hugo Award
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. As SF author Poul Anderson has written, "A Fire Upon the Deep evokes marvelously the strangeness of the universe, and of the human future as we venture forth into it, in a story that is both exciting and thought-provoking."
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"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."—Library Journal
"A tale that burns with the brazen energy of the best space operas of the golden age. Vinge has created a galaxy for [today's readers] to believe in—immense, ancient, athrum with data webs, dotted with wonders."—John Clute, Interzone
"Vernor Vinge's best novel yet."—Greg Bear
"A 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."—Kirkus Reviews
"The first grand SF I've read in ages . . . Vinge is one of the best visionary writers of SF today."—David Brin, author of Earth
"Fiercely original . . . Compelling ideas in [this] 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
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by John Clute
It is never the same river twice. The first edition of Vernor Vinge’s great long-limbed space opera, A Fire upon the Deep, which I and others reviewed excitedly in early 1992, may have been reprinted...
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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
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