| A Fire Upon the Deep Contributor(s): Vinge, Vernor (Author) |
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ISBN: 1250237750 ISBN-13: 9781250237750 Publisher: Tor Books OUR PRICE: $17.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Science Fiction - Hard Science Fiction - Fiction | Science Fiction - Space Exploration - Fiction | Science Fiction - Alien Contact |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Zones of Thought |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" (1.00 lbs) 448 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 32832 Reading Level: 6.1 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 32.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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 SeriesA 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 |
Contributor Bio(s): Vinge, Vernor: - Vernor Vinge has won five Hugo Awards, including one for each of his last three novels, A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), A Deepness in the Sky (1999), and Rainbow's End (2006). Known for his rigorous hard-science approach to his 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 books also include Marooned in Realtime and The Peace War. Born in Waukesha, Wisconsin and raised in Central Michigan, Vinge is the son of geographers. Fascinated by science and particularly computers from an early age, he has a Ph.D. in computer science, and taught mathematics and computer science at San Diego State University for thirty years. He has gained a great deal of attention both here and abroad for his theory of the coming machine intelligence Singularity. Sought widely as a speaker to both business and scientific groups, he lives in San Diego, California. |