Vinge Vernor - A Fire Upon The Deep - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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
Title: A Fire Upon The Deep
Author(s): Vinge Vernor
Publisher: Tor Publishing Group
Barcode: 9781250237750
Pages: 448 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 5/5/2020
Series: Zones of Thought
Category: Science Fiction