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. 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
One group was with all the intelligence and the second group comprised. The author takes us on a tour of thousands of years when the world was divided into two groups. Horrified at how it has been fooled and how close it has come to dying, the Power looks forward to things being different this time.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. As the first part of the series the book was tricky to understand, Vernor Vinge talks about a universe with humans involved but the world is not like ours. He is best known for his Hugo Award-winning novels and novellas A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), A Deepness in the Sky (1999), Rainbows End (2006. The Power has only milliseconds to prevent their making an ultradrive but, infiltrating the ship's code it shuts everything down, dooming these humans. Vernor Steffen Vinge (Listeni/vrnr vndi/ born October 2, 1944) is a retired San Diego State University (SDSU) Professor of Mathematics, computer scientist, and science fiction author. Sensing that something has been lost, the new Power frantically probes the archives as the humans make off with a quantum data container. None guesses that they have changed the future of trillions of star systems.
As the intelligence that they have inadvertently created nears its "great flowering" across interstellar space, some humans realize that they have played with fire. Scientists explore a long-ruined Earth to learn secrets to enrich the Straumli Realm-if they can keep the Powers from stealing them.
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