A rescue mission, not entirely composed of humans, must rescue the children-and a secret that may save the rest of interstellar civilization. Vernor Vinge weaves an amazingly elaborate galaxy filled with alien species of all levels of technology, including sentient kelp on wheels. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading A Fire Upon The Deep (Zones of Thought series Book 1).
Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. 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 Fire Upon The Deep (Zones of Thought series Book 1) - Kindle edition by Vinge, Vernor. Urn:oclc:865338883 Scandate 20100407234933 Scanner Fire Upon The Deep book pdf read and download by Vernor VingeĪ 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. OL1975714W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 96.19 Pages 632 Ppi 400 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0613278259 OL24207123M Openlibrary_subject long_now_manual_for_civilization Openlibrary_work Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 20:32:52 Bookplateleaf 0010 Boxid IA115123 Boxid_2 CH105501 Camera Canon 5D City New York DonorĪlibris Edition 1.
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