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A Fire Upon The Deep

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Now in a new trade paperback edition 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.

A Hugo Award-winning Novel!

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

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. 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.

Fleeing 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. They are taken captive by the Tines, an alien race with a harsh medieval culture, and used as pawns in a ruthless power struggle.

Tor books by Vernor Vinge

Zones of Thought Series

A Fire Upon The Deep

A Deepness In The Sky

The Children of The Sky

Realtime/Bobble Series

The Peace War

Marooned in Realtime

Other Novels

The Witling

Tatja Grimm's World

Rainbows End

Collections

Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge

True Names

Reviews

“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 the readers of the ’90s to believe in…immense, ancient, athrum with data webs, dotted with wonders.” —John Clute, Interzone

“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

“Fiercely original…Compelling ideas in the 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

About the Author

Vernor Vinge has won five Hugo Awards, two of them for novels in the Zones of Thought series, A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky. Known for his rigorous hard-science approach to 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 novels also include Marooned in Realtime, Rainbows End and The Peace War.

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Books By Vernor Vinge

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A Deepness in the Sky

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The Zones of Thought Series

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True Names and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier

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The Children of the Sky

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After the Battle on Starship Hill

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