![]() ![]() It had a fast start with some really cool things happening. ![]() ![]() This started out really great, through the first six chapters I thought I was really going to enjoy the book. This is about my fourth space opera by the fourth author and I have yet to really like any of them. I am coming to the conclusion that Space Opera is not for me. A rescue mission, not entirely composed of humans, must rescue the children-and a secret that may save the rest of interstellar civilization.Ī Fire upon the Deep, which began the Zones of Thought series, is the winner of the 1993 Hugo Award for Best Novel. 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 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. 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. 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. ![]()
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