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A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for A Fire Upon the DeepFleeing a menace of galactic proportions, a spaceship crashes on an unfamiliar world, leaving the survivors - a pair of children - to the not-so-tender mercies of a medieval, lupine race. Responding to the ship's distress signal, a rescue mission races against time to retrieve the children.
Full description- Publisher: St Martin's Press
- Published: 01 September 2010
- Format: Paperback 613 pages
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- Categories: Science Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780812515282 ISBN 10: 0812515285
- Sales rank: 7,498
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Full description for A Fire Upon the Deep
"A 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. "A Fire Upon The Deep" is the winner of the 1993 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
