Buckell notes that the novel deftly captures the various ways in which such a system might be abused. The novel imagines a galaxy in which thousands of alien races are able to communicate with each other via short paragraphs of text. The amount of time and effort he put into thinking it through, I really admire that.” “Just plotwise it’s stunning, as well as creatively,” she says. Science fiction author Abby Goldsmith appreciated the book’s carefully crafted story. “Every couple pages there was just some amazing idea where I was like, ‘Oh yeah,’ and I was underlining everything.”Ī Fire Upon the Deep juggles dozens of characters and plotlines without ever becoming confusing.
“It has 10 books’ worth of ideas packed into it,” Kirtley says. The central conceit of the book, a universe in which computation becomes easier the farther one travels from the galactic core, creates a setting that encompasses almost every sci-fi concept imaginable. They are taken captive by the Tines, an alien race with a harsh medieval culture, and used as pawns in a ruthless power struggle.Īt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy host David Barr Kirtley agrees that A Fire Upon the Deep is an amazing accomplishment. 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.įleeing 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. 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. "Vinge is one of the best visionary writers of SF today."-David Brin Now with a new introduction for the Tor Essentials line, A Fire Upon the Deep is sure to bring a new generation of SF fans to Vinge's award-winning works.
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