The Children Of The Sky

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HE CHILDREN OF THE SK
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR
"Vei nor Vinge's stories and
the Sky carries on that grand tradition!'
ed and entertained me, and The Children of
Greg Bear, bestselling author of Hull Zero Three
''Imagine bootstrapping a fallen civilization into transcendence using nothing but a collection
of hive-mind Machiavellis, a crippled hyperadvanced spaceship, and a pack of surly, scheming,
orphaned adolescents. Oh, and then there's the vengeful god ramscooping itself to relativistic
speeds a mere thirty light-years away. Vinge's explosive imagination and deft storytelling
make epics sail past like hummingbirds—you'll steal daytime moments to read more,
and lie awake at night contemplating what you've read." Cory Doctorow
"No one has ever crafted a more complex, fascinating, and strangely realistic alien race than
Vernor Vinge's marvelous Tines." David Brin
AND RAVES FOR
A FIRE UPON THE DEEP
"Vinge is among the very best of the current crop of hard-SF writers."... Tovább

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HE CHILDREN OF THE SK
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR
"Vei nor Vinge's stories and
the Sky carries on that grand tradition!'
ed and entertained me, and The Children of
Greg Bear, bestselling author of Hull Zero Three
''Imagine bootstrapping a fallen civilization into transcendence using nothing but a collection
of hive-mind Machiavellis, a crippled hyperadvanced spaceship, and a pack of surly, scheming,
orphaned adolescents. Oh, and then there's the vengeful god ramscooping itself to relativistic
speeds a mere thirty light-years away. Vinge's explosive imagination and deft storytelling
make epics sail past like hummingbirds—you'll steal daytime moments to read more,
and lie awake at night contemplating what you've read." Cory Doctorow
"No one has ever crafted a more complex, fascinating, and strangely realistic alien race than
Vernor Vinge's marvelous Tines." David Brin
AND RAVES FOR
A FIRE UPON THE DEEP
"Vinge is among the very best of the current crop of hard-SF writers."
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"A tale that burns with the brazen energy of the best space operas of the Golden Age. Immense,
ancient, a-thrum with data webs, dotted with wonders." John Clute
"Thoughtful space opera at its best, this book delivers everything it promises in terms of galactic
scope, audacious concepts, and believablexharacters both human and nonhuman."
The New York Times
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"A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge is a genuine galactic epic. This is big-scale science fiction at
its best." The Denver Post
"The plot twists and turns with unputdownable tension. A masterpiece of universe-building."
Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
In a lab at the edge of the galaxy,
in search of an ancient archive, scientists unwit-
tingly unleash the Blight: this vast, destructive
entity rampages through the Zones of Thought,
subverting digital intelligence and devastating
countless worlds and races throughout the Be-
yond. One ship, carrying the children of the
scientists, seeks haven on an obscure world in the
Slow Zone, only to find medieval kingdoms of
group-animals—the Tines—at war with one an-
other. Another ship, itself fleeing the Blight,
follows their ship's distress signal to Tines World
and helps end the war, saving most of the Children.
Ten years later, Ravna Bergsndot, the lone sur-
viving human adult living among the Tines, has
revived most of the hundred and fifty Children
who remain in coldsleep. Under her protection,
the Children have grown to adulthood and estab-
lished a society with the Tines. Now, Tinish packs
and human beings live together in peace in the
Domain, one of the few remaining outposts of
humans in the galaxy, while Ravna keeps watch
against the approach of the Blight.
Other than Ravna, only Johanna and Jefri
Olsndot, whose parents piloted the desperate
flight to Tines World, have direct knowledge of
the events that brought them there, and Jefri was
too young to truly understand. The other Chil-
dren have memories only of life before the Blight.
Now, old enough to shape their own future, they
question Ravna's guidance, and seek to chart a
new course . . . heedless of the potential for disas-
ter amid the Machiavellian politics of Tines World.
As some in the Domain plot and scheme,
far beyond their society's borders the legendary
pack Tycoon is shaping the world's first industrial
civilization. With dark alliances swirling in both
human and Tinish circles, the survival of Tines
World depends on Ravna. And Ravna has enemies,
unseen . . . awaiting their moment. Vissza