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- Deepness in the Sky, A
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| Review | Author |
|---|---|
| Vernor Vinge - A Deepness in the Sky - 10 | clong |
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| # | Date | Publisher | Binding | Cover |
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| 1 | 2000-01-00 | Tor Books |  |
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- Blurb:
- Hugo winner for 2000 Vernor Vinge"s Hugo Award-winning novel, A Fire Upon the Deep , established him as one of the field"s elite. Now Vinge returns to that cosmos of infinite variety in a spellbinding novel of masterful suspense and originality; a visionary epic with the complexity and breadth of the universe, and the joy and pain of the human heart. Thirty thousand years before the events of A Fire Upon The Deep , Pham Nuwen is living in anonymity among the Qeng Ho interstellar trading fleet. In high orbit above the planet Arachna, they wait for the awakening of its dormant population, the Spiders, who have burrowed deep into the planet, awaiting the relighting of the On/Off star their planet orbits. For when light returns, Arachna will at long last explode into a Golden Age of technology and commerce. But the slumbering Spiders" vulnerability has attracted another lurking presence-the Emergents, a band of traders whose plans for Arachna are more sinister than anything the Qeng Ho could envision. Reluctant to share their spoils with the Qeng Ho, the Emergents unleash an attack unlike any seen in the Qeng Ho"s millennia-long history of exploration, reducing their fleet to serfdom…and then to something far worse. Reaching into memories so old and painful he can barely recall them, Pham gathers the other survivors" about him and makes a final attempt to be worthy of a reputation as ancient and storied as the history of the Qeng Ho itself. But time is running out