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Overview

This second novel by multiple award-winner Vernor Vinge, from 1976, is a fast-paced adventure where galactic policies collide and different cultures clash as two scientists and their faith in technology are pitted against an elusive race of telekinetic beings.

Marooned on a distant world and slowly dying of food poisoning, two anthropologists are caught between warring alien factions engaged in a battle that will affect the future of the world's inhabitants and their deadly telekinetic powers. If the anthropologists can't help resolve the conflict between the feuding alien factions, no one will survive.

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Vernor Vinge is best known for thematically massive, visionary science fiction epics like A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky (both of which won the Hugo Award); but fans of the renowned literary futurist will be happy to know that Tor Books is busy re-releasing some of Vinge's earlier, more intimate works.

The Witling (1976), Vinge's second published novel, chronicles the adventures of two human explorers marooned on a planet inhabited by an sentient but unfriendly race. Slowly dying from the heavy metal concentration in the local food and water (and hopelessly stranded after their spacecraft crashed and burned), surly pilot Yoninne Leg-Wot and aging archeologist Ajao Bjault have only one chance to survive -- to somehow retrieve their weapons and communication devices from the native populace and transmit an emergency message requesting help. The Azhiri, however, although still a primitive Iron Age civilization, have extraordinarily powerful teleportation abilities…

If shelf-bending masterworks like the aforementioned A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky are all-you-can-eat meals, then this unearthed Vinge classic is a delectable bite-sized dessert. With only a handful of integral characters and relatively uncomplicated story lines, the pacing of The Witling is fast and its narrative straightforward. But, as par for the course with all Vinge works, deeply thought-provoking themes (contrasting cultures, tolerance, prejudice, etc.) make this fast-paced adventure anything but simple reading fare. (Note: Fans still hungry for more VV should check out Tatja Grimm's World, The Peace War, and Marooned in Realtime, all early Vinge works recently reissued by Tor.) Paul Goat Allen
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Vinge's sf tale finds human anthropologists stranded on a planet amidst an alien war between two indigenous species. The humans are dying slowly from natural toxins, but if they can't help bring peace, the planet's entire population will join them. This edition includes 16 illustrations. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780765308863
  • Publisher: Doherty, Tom Associates, LLC
  • Publication date: 11/28/2006
  • Pages: 224
  • Sales rank: 778,381
  • Product dimensions: 5.51 (w) x 8.23 (h) x 0.59 (d)

Meet the Author

Vernor Vinge, a four-time Hugo award-winner, is the author of such acclaimed bestselling novels as Rainbows End, A Deepness in the Sky, A Fire Upon the Deep, and the seminal True Names. A mathematician and computer scientist, he lives in San Diego, California.

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  • Posted December 9, 2008

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    superb reprint of a deep look at society

    The male archeologist Bjault and the female space pilot Yoninne Leg-Wot disagree on how to go about their assignment to explore the planet Giri. She insists they know enough having ¿spied¿ from space on the feudal society below but he says they only picked up information about women and children as the men are minors. Still with their incredibly superior technology, they land on the planet with a human superiority complex. Prince Imperial Pelio wants to be recognized as the heir to his father¿s throne, but he is a Witling so even his sire Lord Prefect of Bodgaru knows his offspring is unworthy as his son cannot mentally transport himself or objects like most people can and do at the speed of light. However, though dreaming of becoming the Lord Prefect, Prince Pelio had no hope of succession as any attempt would not just fail, but also expose him as a Witling and turn him into a slave that is he had no expectation until the two outsiders landed. They are Witlings like him, but they contain knowledge and technology far advanced than those on his planet. If he can exploit their knowledge, he can become the Lord Prefect even as a lowly Witling. --- This is a reprint of a superb look at necessity is the mother of invention as Bodgaru society uses mental telepathy that limits the need for technological advancement especially in transportation for many people. However those lacking the skill are considered handicapped and treated as slaves way beneath those with the talent. The two pompous outsiders land at a time when the have-nots want to break the yoke of slavery while the haves prefer the status quo. Fast-paced and insightful, readers will appreciate this delightful insightful tale of a technological backwater world that for most people do not need wheeled-vehicles. --- Harriet Klausner

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