After thousands of years searching, humans stand on the verge of first contact with an alien race. Two human groups: the Qeng Ho, a culture of free traders, and the Emergents, a ruthless society based on the technological enslavement of minds. The group that opens trade with the aliens will reap uni
A Deepness In The Sky
โ Scribed by Vinge, Vernor
- Book ID
- 106933558
- Publisher
- Victor Gollancz Limited
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 467 KB
- Series
- Queng Ho 1
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780575093690
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โฆ Synopsis
A Deepness in the Sky is a Hugo Award winning[1] science fiction novel by Vernor Vinge. Published in 1999, the novel is a loose prequel (set twenty thousand years earlier) to his earlier novel A Fire Upon the Deep (1992). The title is coined by one of the story's main characters in a debate, in a reference to the hibernating habits of his species and to the vastness of space.
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SUMMARY: This hefty novel returns to the universe of Vernor Vinge's 1993 Hugo winner A Fire Upon the Deep--but 30,000 years earlier. The story has the same sense of epic vastness despite happening mostly in one isolated solar system. Here there's a world of intelligent spider creatures who tradition
A Deepness in the Sky is a Hugo Award winning[1] science fiction novel by Vernor Vinge. Published in 1999, the novel is a loose prequel (set twenty thousand years earlier) to his earlier novel A Fire Upon the Deep (1992). The title is coined by one of the story's main characters in a debate, in a re