A Deepness in the Sky

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Author(s):

Vernor Vinge

First Pub:

1999

Genre(s):

Science Fiction

First Read:

2015

Times Read:

1 time

Rating:

Chapters:

See 8

Prolgue

Part One - One Hundred Sixty Years Later -

Chapters 1-13

Part Two

Chapters 14-43

Part Three

Chapters 44-66

Epilogue - Seven Years Later -

Internal ID:

1604

Series:

A Fire Upon the Deep
The Children of the Sky

Zones of Thought*

#2 of 4

Zones of Thought*

A science fiction series by Vernor Vinge

View this series in the book list

1) A Fire Upon the Deep
2) A Deepness in the Sky
3) The Children of the Sky
4) After the Battle on Starship Hill: Prolog to The Children of the Sky

Copyright:

Dedication:

To Poul Anderson,

In learning to write science fiction, I have had many great models, but Poul Anderson's work has meant more to me than any other. Beyond that, Poul has provided me and the world with an enormous treasure of wonderful, entertaining stories - and he continues to do so.
On a personal note, I will always be grateful to Poul and Karen Anderson for the hospitality that they shows a certain young science fiction writer back in the 1960s.

-V.V.

First Sentence:

The manhunt extended across more than one hundred light-years and eight centuries.

Last Sentence:

May contain spoilers

Somewhere down there the old Spider might still sleep, waiting for his lady lost... and beginning on his greatest Lurk of all.

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Added: 31-Jan-2015

Last Updated: 18-Dec-2019

01-Apr-2007

Tor Books

Kindle e-Book

Date Issued:

01-Apr-2007

Format:

Kindle e-Book

Cover Price:

$8.99

Pages*:

796

Read:

Once

Cover Link(s):

Internet Speculative Fiction Database

amazon.com

Internal ID:

1550

Publisher:

Tor Books

ISBN:

0-812-53635-5

ISBN-13:

978-0-812-53635-5

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Credits:

James Frenkel - Editor

From amazon.com description:

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.

Cover:

Notes and Comments:

Read this eBook just after finishing A Fire Upon the Deep by Vinge.

Other book covers for this series run

A Fire Upon the Deep

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A Deepness in the Sky

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The Children of the Sky

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After the Battle on Starship Hill: Prolog to The Children of the Sky

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01-Apr-2007
Tor Books
Kindle e-Book

Author(s)

Vernor Vinge
Birth: 02 Oct 1944 Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA
Death: 20 Mar 2024 San Diego, California, USA

Notes:

From the Kindle version of the novel A Deepness in the Sky:

VERNOR VINGE won the Hugo Award for his novel A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), and has been a finalist for the Hugo Award four times, for the novels The Peace War (1984) and Marooned in Realtime (1986), for the novella True Names (1981), and for a novelette. His best-known works are admired for their extraordinary combination of groundbreaking science fiction concepts and epic adventures of great emotional power. Sought widely by publications as disparate as Rolling Stone and Wired, he is in constant demand as a speaker to scientific forums in the field of cybernetics and especially the area of human and machine intelligence. He has had a number of short stories published in Analog and other science fiction magazines. He is a professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at San Diego State University and currently lives in San Diego.

Awards

2000	Center for the Study of Science Fiction	Campbell Award	Winner
2000	Libertarian Futurist Society	Prometheus Award	Winner
2000	Locus Magazine	Best SF Novel	Nominee
2000	Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America	Nebula Award - Best Novel	Nominee
2000	Serendip Foundation	Arthur C. Clarke Award	Nominee
2000	World Science Fiction Society	Hugo Award - Best Novel	Winner

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