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A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)

Vernor Vinge

Start date: November 1, 2014

Finish date: November 30, 2014

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Aug 28, 2013 mark monday rated it really liked it

Shelves: scifi-modern

children on the run. alien dogs that think as a group. power in numbers! powerful book. good dogs. although some bad dogs too. I guess fanatical is a bad personality trait, even for dogs.

different flavors: adventure, medieval fantasy, comedy, hard science fiction, even horror. big ideas.

thoughtful, exciting, highly original. fantastic book.

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May 23, 2012 Banner rated it liked it

Shelves: alien, sci-fi

There is a lot to be commended about this book, but for me the plot was just too unnecessarily complex to hold my attention for a higher than average rating. The alien society is worth the effort. I like the stretching of my imagination with the whole consciousness concept. I think another problem I had was relating to the idea of so many lives being so insufficient to such a superior intelligence . Humans are not all that special on a cosmic level in this universe.

But if you like aliens (and ...more

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Jul 05, 2008 JuliAnna rated it liked it

Shelves: science-fiction

This is not what I generally expect of Vinge. It has elements of space opera (although not the best). It has godlike AIs. It has a fascinating alien pack species. It is definitely thought provoking SF, competently executed.

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Jan 16, 2008 Chessa rated it really liked it

Shelves: sf_fantasy, hugo_award_winner

This will be book 7 of 2008. Vinge is going to be the guest of honor at a geeky SF convention I'm planning on attending in April (Penguicon) so I wanted to have read something by him first. I'm only 15 pages in and it's interesting already. :) ...more

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