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

By Vernor Vinge
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A Hugo award-winning Novel!

“Vinge is one of the best visionary writers of SF today.” —David Brin

Thousands of years in the future, humanity is no longer alone in a universe where a mind's potential is determined by its location in space, from superintelligent entities in the Transcend, to the limited minds of the Unthinking Depths, where only simple creatures, and technology, can function. Nobody knows what strange force partitioned space into these "regions of thought," but when the warring...

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Space is really, really, really big. You think you know this, but you don’t. You have probably heard before that something like one million Earths would fit inside the sun. Wow, you think. Big. Kind of makes you feel insignificant, right? But a million, that’s not that many. Apple sells 13 million iPhones in three days […]
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