A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)

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Alternate Cover Edition can be found hereA 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 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 the threat, a family of scientists, including two children, are taken captive by the Tines, an alien race with a harsh medieval culture, and used as pawns in a ruthless power struggle A rescue mission, not entirely composed of humans, must rescue the children and a secret that may save the rest of interstellar civilization. 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so powerful and so m I want to make it clear that I don t lightly write rave reviews Please read the following sentence twice This is an absolutely fantastic book.On the outskirts of the Galaxy, far from the physical constraints of the Galactic core, faster than light travel is possible, and Transcended intelligences flourish to a complexity that dwarfs human comprehension Scavenging for buried knowledge on a dead world, a party of humans awakes an ancient evil an archive containing an entity so powerful and so malign that it begins to sweep across the galaxy, overwhelming even the godlike Powers of the Transcend.Some of the humans escape towards the galactic plane, bearing a little understood cargo that represents the galaxy s only possible weapon against the Blight They crash land on an alien world, leaving only two survivors, both of them children who are promptly snatched by opposing alien factions But the aliens low tech society is promptly and drastically destabilised by the humans technology, leav...Epic science fiction at its best, this space opera novel shared the 1993 Hugo Award with Doomsday Book This is incredibly imaginative, with a great, complex story and detailed, believable world building, and some of the best alien species ever imagined It s a long, sprawling story and the technological parts are rather dated, but I still loved it.A group of scientists investigating a five billion year old data archive accidentally unleashes the Blight, a malignant superintelligence that rapidl Epic science fiction at its best, this space opera novel shared the 1993 Hugo Award with Doomsday Book This is incredibly imaginative, with a great, complex story and detailed, believable world building, and some of the best alien species ever imagined It s a long, sprawling story and the technological parts are rather dated, but I still loved it.A group of scientists investigating a five billion year old data archive accidentally unleashes the Blight...This is an impressive work of hard science fiction I admire the author s creation and the writing is decent if not riveting.I enjoyed the story of the Tines, aliens with pack minds, and I came to like the concept of the zones of thought , where different levels of technology are possible in different areas of the galaxy.But I found myself indifferent to the rest of the characters The enemy they called the Blight seemed ominous on...This book comes highly recommended by Redditors and several best of sf lists However, seeing that Vinge is a scientist I did not expect much from this book, some cool, believable sf concepts at the most The book did not start well for me with silly names like Wickwrackrum popping up and a confusing first chapter However, once I begin to follow the book about 30 pages in Vinge really surprised me with his talented authorship He has the ability to create characters worth caring about and This book comes highly recommended by Redditors and several best of sf lists However, seeing that Vinge is a scientist I did not expect much from this book, some cool, believable sf concepts at the most The book did not...children on the run alien dogs that think as a group power in numbers powerful book good dogs although some bad dogs too I guess fanatical is a bad personality trait, even for dogs.different flavors adventure, medieval fantasy, comedy, hard science fiction, even horror big ideas.th...Maybe I ll come off as bi polar when I start this five star review my first of 2011 with an extensive list of why the book I m applauding is utter garbage But what the hell, I m game if you are Let s do it.Why A Fire Upon the Deep is Utter Garbage1 Mr Vinge s characters are only so so, and the humans are the worst of the lot Every once in a blue moon a character will shine, which makes it so hard to bear their poor treatment at other critical points Vernor struggles, as most sci fi aut Maybe I ll come off as bi polar when I start this five star review my first of 2011 with an extensive list of why the book I m applauding is utter garbage But what the hell, I m game if you are Let s do it.Why A Fire Upon the Deep is Utter Garbage1 Mr Vinge s characters are only so so, and the humans are the worst of the lot Every once in a blue moon a character will shine, which makes it so hard to bear their poor treatment at other critical points Vernor struggles, as most sci fi authors do, with creating believable characters of depth and dimension that readers can be bothered to care about or will retain in their memories When someone loses every...Sooo, I know this is a seminal classic of the Space Opera genre, so the fact I didn t LOVE it as much as everyone said I would makes me feel a bit inadequate in a way, but hey, everyone is entitled to their opinions, eh I mean, from an intellectual standpoint, this is brilliant The world building is so convincing, I actually was frequently disturbed by it, which is kinda why I can t love it, which is actually a testament to it s brilliance It s thought provoking and unbelievably well shaped Sooo, I know this is a seminal classic of the Space Opera genre, so the fact I didn t LOVE it as much as everyone said I would makes me feel a bit inadequate in a way, but hey, everyone is entitled to their opinions, eh I mean, from an intellectual standpoint, this is brilliant The world building is so convincing, I actually was frequently disturbed by it, which is kinda why I can t love it, which is actually a testament to it s brilliance It s thought provoking and unbelievably well shaped I got the e book version for my Kindle, and the author s notes on the development process add a whole new level of admiration to my viewing of the book I mean, the detail is STAGGERING.I guess the only thing that I didn t enjoy was the fact that the aliens were so animal like Hell, I can t read Watership Down without sobbing page one Or Charlotte s Web So, that s just my problem Upshot, if you re looking for fantastic sci fi, look no ...I love it when I give a book 5 stars I knew practically nothing about this book when I started except that I hadn t liked the only other Vernor Vinge book I d read Rainbow s End This is about a gazillion times better So here s the low down This is a far future yarn, with three great big ideas.1 Space is not uniform I m probably going to explain this poorly my wife looked somewhat unconvinced when I tried to explain it to her , but here goes there are zones of thought Somewhere in the I love it when I give a book 5 stars I knew practically nothing about this book when I started except that I hadn t liked the only other Vernor Vinge book I d read Rainbow s End This is about a gazillion times better So here s the low down This is a far future yarn, with three great big ideas.1 Space is not uniform I m probably goi...A Fire Upon the Deep Fascinating aliens but clunky plot and charactersOriginally posted at Fantasy LiteratureA Fire Upon the Deep was the big breakout novel from Vernor Vinge, winner of the 1993 Hugo Award and nominated for the Nebula It features a unique premise I haven t encountered before the universe has been separated into four separate Zones of Thought the Unthinking Depths, Slow Zone, Beyond, and Transcend Starting from the galactic core, the Zones demarcate differing levels of techn A Fire Upon the Deep Fascinating aliens but clunky plot and charactersOriginally posted at Fantasy LiteratureA Fire Upon the Deep was the big breakout novel from Vernor Vinge, winner of the 1993 Hugo Award and nominated for the Nebula It features a unique premise I haven t encountered before the universe has been separated into four separate Zones of Thought the Unthinking Depths, Slow Zone, Beyond, and Transcend Starting from the galactic core, the Zones demarcate differing levels of technological and biological advancement but this doesn t...

A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
  • English
  • 27 June 2018
  • Mass Market Paperback
  • 613 pages
  • 0812515285
  • Vernor Vinge
  • A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)