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	A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge (Olson)
		A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge (Olson)
		Deepness doesn't really connect to any previous story or novel, though one character from Deepness, Pham, is evidently the Pham who appears in A Fire Upon the Deep.
		As hinted in A Fire Upon the Deep, one of the limitations of the Slow Zone is that AI is impossible.
	www.nesfa.org /reviews/Olson/DeepnessInTheSky.html (670 words)

	A Deepness in the Sky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Deepness in the Sky, a loose prequel (set 30,000 years earlier) to his novel A Fire Upon the Deep (1992).
		Only one concrete connection links A Deepness in the Sky with A Fire Upon the Deep: the character of Pham Nuwen, the "Programmer-at-Arms", who appears in both books.
		Hints occur about the "zones of thought" mentioned in the earlier book; the story takes place in the Slow Zone, though Vinge does not explain the connections, and the characters in the story remain unaware of the zones' existence.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky (740 words)

	Excessive Candour -- A Deepness in the Sky
		Deepness in the Sky may be the most extended example of dramatic irony ever published; it is certainly one of the oddest, because the irony does not end.
		The true shape of A Deepness in the Sky cannot therefore be understood by reading the book itself.
		A Deepness in the Sky is an anecdote of the Slow Zone.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue101/excess.html (888 words)

	Vernor Vinge: A Deepness in the Sky
		Although Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky is set in the same universe as his Hugo-Award winning A Fire on the Deep, it is neither sequel nor prequel.
		Their methods of dealing with the Deep, as the refer to their periods of hibernation and strange war which they fight each time they come out of hibernation are enough to maintain the reader's interest.
		A Deepness in the Sky is the sort of science fiction novel that many science fiction apologists point to when explaining why science fiction is a legitimate form of fiction in their arguments to win over non-science-fiction readers.
	www.sfsite.com /~silverag/deepness.html (584 words)

	FACT SF Reading Group
		June 6: A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
		A Deepness in the Sky is a space adventure novel set hundreds of years in our future.
		Deepness is a loose "prequel" to Vinge's Hugo-winning 1992 novel A Fire upon the Deep, but the two books share only one character and have no plot elements in common.
	www.fact.org /reading/reports/jun00.shtml (933 words)

	Review: A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
		A Deepness in the Sky is billed as a prequel to Vinge's 1992 award winning A Fire Upon the Deep.
		Deepness is connected to Fire by only the most tenuous of threads, that being the reminisces of Pham Nuwen about his life with the Qeng Ho.
		At least in Deepness he comes up with a real explanation for this, though it takes until well into the second half of the book to learn what it is, leaving the reader stuck believing the worst for most of it.
	www.urbanophile.com /arenn/sf/reviews/deepness-in-the-sky.html (799 words)

	Vernor Vinge: A Deepness in the Sky - an infinity plus review
		The amber is physics and history; the flies are individuals and the civilizations of which they are part; and some of the flies are seeking to escape their imprisonment.
		Their instinctive orientation is cautious and inward, towards the caves or deepnesses in which they survive the Dark.
		In A Deepness in the Sky, his grandest space opera yet, he sets historical optimism and pessimism at war, and the novel's shrewd triumph is that neither is the winner.
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /nonfiction/deepness.htm (1068 words)

	A Deepness in the Sky (John's Book Pages) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A Deepness in the Sky and its predecessor, A Fire Upon the Deep, are built on an interesting premise: Earth is in the slow zone -- a region of the galaxy where physical laws put tight constraints on technological advancement.
		At the beginning of A Deepness in the Sky, two groups of humans arrive nearly simultaneously at the OnOff star -- a strange variable star that alternates between being nearly dark for 200 years and bright for 35.
		Vinge's strengths are that he tells a good story and that he has a deep understanding of computers and of their probable long-term effects on the human race.
	books.regehr.org /reviews/deepnessinthesky.html (645 words)

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		A Deepness in the Sky & Marooned in Realtime by Vernor Vinge
		A prequel to Vinge's wild and wonderful A Fire Upon the Deep, A Deepness in the Sky lives up to its illustrious predecessor (or should it be successor?) in delivering fascinating new worlds and a highly succesful vision of technology and its effects in the post-cyberpunk era of science fiction.
		A Deepness in the Sky, on the other hand, is set in the Slow Zone (for those of you who know what that means), and doesn't delve into the fantastic technology of Fire.
	wso.williams.edu:8000 /orgs/warp/reviews/vinge.html (1241 words)

	Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		There is never any doubt that the evil protagonists in A Deepness in the Sky are anything but human and consequently this aspect of their characters may be overdone.
		A Deepness in the Sky is a novel of 700-odd pages, and so well instantiated is its universe, so real its characters and events, that I felt, if the author so wished, it could have been sustained for almost the same length again (and that I would have stayed with it).
		At the outset of A Deepness in the Sky, as we first meet the non-human, non-hominid life-form, it appears that Vernor Vinge (writing in standard third-person narrative format) has forgone any attempts at such insights and is playing it straight (with an eye perhaps on the book's film rights).
	www.rambles.net /vinge_deepness.html (655 words)

	A Deepness in the Sky (5-minute review)
		A Deepness in the Sky is one of the best science fiction novels I've read in years.
		It's an epic first contact story in which Vernor Vinge brings an alien world and its intelligent inhabitants to life in an innovative and engaging way, while at the same time telling the story of a devastating sociological clash between the two space-faring human cultures that arrive to exploit the system.
		A Deepness in the Sky won a Hugo award in 2000 and is well worth a read for the discriminating SF aficionado.
	www.trilithium.com /johan/2005/06/a-deepness-in-the-sky (148 words)

	Vernor Vinge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He is best known for his Hugo award-winning novels A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky, as well as for his 1993 essay "The Technological Singularity", in which he argues that exponential growth in technology will reach a point beyond which we cannot even speculate about the consequences.
		In it, he envisions a galaxy that is divided up into "zones of thought", in which the further one moves from the center of the galaxy, the higher the level of technology one can achieve.
		A Deepness in the Sky (1999) was a prequel to Fire, following competing groups of humans in The Slow Zone as they struggle over who has the rights to exploit a technologically emerging alien culture.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vernor_Vinge (923 words)

	Review: Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky, reviewed by Amy Harlib
		ow that veteran SF writer Vernor Vinge's most recent book, A Deepness in the Sky has won the Hugo Award for best SF novel of the year, this seems to be a good time to re-assess it and the novel that inspired it, A Fire Upon the Deep, which won the Hugo in 1993.
		Equally huge, complex and captivating as A Fire Upon the Deep, A Deepness in the Sky is set primarily in the system of the mysterious On/Off star that cycles from solar heat to dimness over periods of a couple of centuries.
		A Deepness in the Sky is every bit as rich and satisfying and deserving of its award as A Fire Upon the Deep.
	www.strangehorizons.com /2001/20010709/vinge.shtml (1265 words)

	A Deepness in the Sky - Vernor Vinge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A Deepness in the Sky is a prequel to Vernor Vinge's Hugo Award-winning A Fire upon the Deep.
		But A Deepness in the Sky is not a disappointment; its story is compelling and its ideas are radical and ingenious.
		In short, A Deepness in the Sky is a libertarian science fiction novel that succeeds equally brilliantly as a libertarian work, as a work of science fiction, and as a novel.
	www.troynovant.com /Stoddard/Vinge/Deepness-in-the-Sky.html (717 words)

	Reflections on the 2000 Hugo nominees (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Only A Civil Campaign and A Deepness in the Sky are set in a future where humans have colonised the galaxy, and only A Deepness in the Sky actually features aliens, or even explicitly described spaceships.
		The free trading Qeng Ho are the good humans in A Deepness in the Sky, pitted against the slave-holding authoritarian Emergents; their alien counterparts are the enlightened constitutional monarchy of the Accord, opposed by the religious bigots of the Kindred.
		Postscript: Interesting that while A Deepness in the Sky is the hardest sf of the novels nominated for the Hugo, all three winners in the shorter fiction category had elements of time travel and two were set quite firmly in our time-line.
	explorers.whyte.com /sf/Hugo2000.htm (767 words)

	coldforged.org » Blog Archive » A Deepness in the Sky
		Anyway, Pham’s life has been long in real-time and deep sleep and, ultimately, disappointing to him as his lifelong vision of a universal, pan-galactic “civilization” is dashed by the very people he counted as his most stalwart supporters.
		I’ll assume you can guess what they look like, but every aspect of their life cycle, from the long periods of dormancy during the dark in their deepnesses, to the “in-phase” reproduction is reasonable and relevant.
		You are current reading A Deepness in the Sky posted on January 24,2003 and filed under Books.
	www.coldforged.org /archives/2003/01/24/a-deepness-in-the-sky (1161 words)

	Vernor Vinge Keeps Raising the Bar for Space Opera
		A Deepness in the Sky is a prequel to Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep, but it doesn't share much plot, character or mood with that Hugo-winning space opera.
		A Fire Upon the Deep was an epic, full of galactic threats and technology so advanced even its operators thought of it as approaching magic.
		Deepness does not have the plethora of gee-whiz concepts that marked A Fire Upon the Deep, but it makes intelligent use of biotechnology, ordinary mechanics and, most importantly, the information technology that ties it all together.
	www.space.com /sciencefiction/books/deepness_sky_000110.html (525 words)

	Amazon.com: A Deepness in the Sky: Books: Vernor Vinge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The baddies in "Deepness" are smart and are constantly a half step ahead of the good guys, which makes for an exciting read.
		IMHO "A Deepness in the Sky" meets or exceeds the high standard set by its predecessor.
		The scope of "Deepness" isn't as sweeping as that of "Fire", but this is made up for by much more comprehensive character development and complexities in the plot.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312856830?v=glance (2372 words)

	Science Fiction Book Reviews: A Deepness in the Sky; Not of Woman Born
		The Spiders spend the long dark hibernating in underground "deepnesses." But an ingenious Spider named Sherkaner Underhill has grand schemes to use nuclear power to heat subterranean cities during the dark, eliminating the need to hibernate.
		A Deepness in the Sky doesn't have the mind-boggling sweep of Vinge's Hugo Award-winning novel A Fire Upon the Deep, but on its own term the novel equals and in many respects surpasses its predecessor.
		Since his modest beginnings in the 1960s he has emerged as one of the most powerful voices in science fiction, and Deepness is one of his finest novels.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue99/books.html (1098 words)

	Amazon.ca: A Deepness in the Sky: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The other is about an intelligent race of spiders whose "on-off" star blinks with a century-long period -- thus they must endure a multi-decade deep freeze during their lifetimes (the "Deepness" in the title is a place where spiders can hibernate through a freeze).
		Deepness in the Sky is one of those very, very few novels that encompasses all of the above, in a beautifully interwoven story.
		I thoroughly believe that Pham Nuwen was brought back in Deepness in the Sky because he was the strongest human character in the previous book...Vinge enhanced the Nuwen character beautifully, highlighting his strengths and elaborating on his weaknesses.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0812536355 (1619 words)

	Special Circumstances: A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
		The human colonies established in the deep past, have each had cycles of technological progress, with an eventual regression into medieval societies.
		"A Deepness in the Sky" is a prequel of sorts to Vernor Vinge's earlier book "A Fire Upon the Deep".
		In his earlier "A Fire Upon the Deep" as well as in this novel, he has a character who is, regardless of whether you believe in a particular philosophy, absolutely evil.
	www.cs.sfu.ca /~anoop/weblog/archives/000163.html (1417 words)

	Salon \| Vernor Vinge, online prophet
		Instead, "A Deepness in the Sky" (set in the same future as "A Fire Upon the Deep," only about 30,000 years earlier) takes place in a time when computers have yet to break through to sentience.
		During the seven years Vinge spent writing "A Deepness in the Sky," the rate of technological change in his own world accelerated.
		But he certainly doesn't rule out that possibility, even if there's no sign of success in "A Deepness in the Sky." He is quick to note that the current pace of progress, particularly in the area of networking, is beginning to rev up.
	www.salon.com /tech/feature/1999/04/05/vinge/print.html (1085 words)

	A Review of A Deepness in the Sky
		It's the first novel in a while to really engage me on the sense of wonder level, and to again awaken the feelings of awe and of "I want to be there" that were so central to my early reading of SF.
		I still suppose the fault may be in my jaded self, but A Deepness in the Sky proves that its still possible to really knock me out SFnally.
		However, having read A Fire Upon the Deep does allow the reader of A Deepness in the Sky some additional pleasures (and ironies): in particular, speculation about the true nature of the On/Off star, and about the evolutionary history of the Spiders.
	www.sff.net /people/Richard.Horton/deepness.htm (1153 words)

	A Deepness in the Sky - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A Deepness in the Sky (1999) is a science fiction novel by Vernor Vinge.
		It is a loose prequel to his novel A Fire Upon the Deep, which is set 30,000 years later.
		It was nominated for the 1999 Nebula Award for Best Novel, and won the 2000 Hugo Award for Best Novel and the 2000 Prometheus Award for best libertarian science fiction novel, making it one of the most honored science fiction novels in recent history.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Qeng_Ho (692 words)

	A Deepness in the Sky Book at Shop Ireland
		The aliens in 'A deepness in the sky' are presented throughout the book as creatures that you feel you can relate to.
		However, towards the end of the story you are given a peek at what they are really like without the assistance of 'translators' and this brings home how alien they are in a very powerful (to me) way.
		"A fire upon the deep" is one of the best science fiction books EVER written, and although this prequel does not match it for subject matter, it is still in a class of its own.
	www.shopireland.ie /books/reviews/1857988515/3 (651 words)

	Chicon 2000: Hugo Voting Results
		The elimination rounds continued until just two canidates were left with A Deepness in the Sky holding its lead through all five rounds.
		Apply the No Award test: 609 ballots rank A Deepness in the Sky higher than No Award 40 ballots rank No Award higher than A Deepness in the Sky A Deepness in the Sky is confirmed as winner...
		In this case, A Deepness in the Sky was eliminated for the second place runoff determination and any second place votes from the 246 ballots listing A Deepness in the Sky as first choice were moved to the remaining ballots as first place votes.
	www.chicon.org /hugos/hugovote.htm (973 words)

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