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| Title | : | A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought #2) |
| Author | : | Vernor Vinge |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 775 pages |
| Published | : | January 15th 2000 by Tor Science Fiction (first published March 1999) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction. Space. Space Opera |
Vernor Vinge
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 775 pages Rating: 4.32 | 27886 Users | 944 Reviews
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Alternative Cover Edition can be found here. 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 unimaginable riches. But first, both groups must wait at the aliens' very doorstep for their strange star to relight and for their planet to reawaken, as it does every two hundred and fifty years.... Then, following terrible treachery, the Qeng Ho must fight for their freedom and for the lives of the unsuspecting innocents on the planet below, while the aliens themselves play a role unsuspected by the Qeng Ho and Emergents alike. More than just a great science fiction adventure, A Deepness in the Sky is a universal drama of courage, self-discovery, and the redemptive power of love. A Deepness in the Sky is a 1999 Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novel and the winner of the 2000 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
Present Books Toward A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought #2)
| Original Title: | A Deepness in the Sky |
| ISBN: | 0812536355 (ISBN13: 9780812536355) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Zones of Thought #2 |
| Characters: | Pham Nuwen |
| Literary Awards: | Hugo Award for Best Novel (2000), Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novel (1999), Locus Award Nominee for Best SF Novel (2000), Arthur C. Clarke Award Nominee (2000), Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for Foreign Novel (2004) John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (2000), Prometheus Award for Best Novel (2000) |
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Ratings: 4.32 From 27886 Users | 944 ReviewsEvaluation About Books A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought #2)
A Deepness in the Sky: Might have been interesting at half the lengthOriginally posted at Fantasy LiteratureA Fire Upon the Deep was a big success for Vernor Vinge, winning the 1993 Hugo Award. Seven years later, he followed up with A Deepness in the Sky, set 20,000 years earlier in the same universe, and this captured the 2000 Hugo Award and John W. Campbell Award. I came to both books with high expectations and was eager for a big-canvas space opera filled with mind-boggling technologies,In the 'The Sixth Sense', the character Malcolm tries to tell a story. Unfortunately, it's a bad story, which Cole immediately picks up on, and comments, "You have to add some twists and stuff."I tend to think that the essence of a well-crafted story is the unexpected. A good story has unexpected tragedies, unexpected joys, and unexpected crowning moments of awesome. Yet, there are a surprisingly few good writers that are also good story tellers. In fact, when it comes right down to it, I think
I hate it when aliens act like humans. These spiderlike creatures live in houses, they have breakfast and dinner, they have stairs, jackets, short barreled shotguns, kids, wives, cars, universities. They have in all 2 specialties in their culture that we do not have. They talk like humans, they act like humans. If I want to read about humans with deformities I will try the hunchback of notre dame. But I want aliens with interesting cultures. Like the Prador.
With the best will in the world I couldn't get into this. It took me literally months to read. I kept at it because I hate not finishing books, but it felt like a chore. Part of it was the length - this book is enormous, and my patience for enormous SFF gets measurably lower by the day. Part of it was the pacing, which I found unutterably turgid until the last hundred pages or so. But the big thing that put me off was the two competing stories. Although they come together in the end, the bulk of
I had a little trouble getting into this book the first time, put it down and tried again a few months later. The main problem, initially, was that I couldn't figure out how the two main story lines were related...and got frustated with the switching. The second time through, it became obvious that the "Sherkaner Underhill" character and his people were the spider aliens that the two human cultures were travelling to make contact with, though you really can't tell, from the narrative, that they
I really ought to know better by now. It doesn't matter whether an award is given out by fans or by peers, critics or the general public, whether the criteria is ostensibly "best" this or "favourite" that.Awards are a crap shoot, influenced by fashions, by lobbying and by plain old bad taste.That's right, I said it. Sometimes an award is given out to a book (or a movie, or a play, or a poem the list is as endless as variations in the arts) that simply doesn't deserve it. That doesn't even merit
I loved this and was up all night finishing it. That's rather rare with science fiction, at least hard science fiction. Few science fiction writers--hell, few writers--have Vinge's sense of pacing and ability to create suspense. That's because you care about his characters intensely, human as well as alien. Not something you find enough in Hard Science Fiction--and Vinge brings off some mind-blowing concepts without ever falling into infodump or other awkward constructions. I thought I had read
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