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	A Fire Upon the Deep - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Fire Upon the Deep (1992) is a science fiction novel written by Vernor Vinge.
		A Fire Upon the Deep won the Hugo Award in 1993.
		A prequel to this book was subsequently written, A Deepness in the Sky, set twenty thousand years earlier in the "Slow Zone" near Earth and detailing the earlier adventures of Pham Nuwen.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/A_Fire_Upon_the_Deep (887 words)

	Onward Elsewhere - Vernor Vinge Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A Fire upon the Deep won the Hugo award in 1993 and after only the first 20 pages or so it is obvious why.
		A Deepness in the Sky is the prequel to the very deserving Nebula Award winner, A Fire Upon the Deep.
		While in A Fire Upon the Deep, the aliens were utterly fascinating and incredibly unique, I found the race in this one to be a bit cliche.
	onwardelsewhere.com /vinge.html (978 words)

	Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Now that veteran SF writer Vernor Vinge's most recent book, A Deepness in the Sky, has just won the Hugo Award for best SF novel of the year, it seems a good time to reassess the novel that inspired it, A Fire Upon the Deep, also a Hugo winner.
		That a work of SF and its sequel should both earn such recognition is unusual and attests to the author's skill and intelligence as a writer of richly complex hard SF "sense-of-wonder" yarns in the grandest style.
		In A Fire Upon the Deep, Vinge has created a genuinely new and unique concept of the nature of the galaxy where the laws of physics vary with location.
	www.rambles.net /vinge_deepfire.html (469 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.
		The most memorable are Pham Nuwen (the behind-the-scenes leader of the Traders who survives to reappear in A Fire Upon the Deep), Sherkaner Underhill (the genius inventor of Spiderkind) and his equally remarkable family, and Emergent leader (the smiling deceiver) Tomas Nau and his sadistic assistant Ritser Brughel.
	www.strangehorizons.com /2001/20010709/vinge.shtml (1245 words)

	Bjorn & Sven's Sci-Fi and Fantasy Review
		A Fire Upon the Deep so much that my pulse quickened when I heard a sequel was out.
		Fire is one of my three favorite sci-fi books of the last decade, and with A Deepness In The Sky Vinge places himself just second (to Neal Stephenson) on my list of current sci-fi authors.
		This book is labelled as a sequel to Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep, but it's only real relation is that it is set in the same universe, approximately 30,000 years earlier.
	www.banditos.com /sffreview/reviews/vvinge-review.html (611 words)

	Vernor Vinge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In it, Vinge 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.
		Fire includes a large number of additional ideas making for an unusually complex and rich universe and story.
		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 (729 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		"Fire Upon the Deep" lyrics and music by Benjamin Newman / Em - CD Em / - - D Em / - - - C / - D Em - / Children digging through the attic of their elders in the sky...
		There is war between the stars, and there is war between the packs, And the devil knows his weakness, he will crush it in his hand.
		For there's a wave upon the depths that's come to overwhelm the height, And if you would win the battle, then forever you must sleep.
	www.sccs.swarthmore.edu /users/01/bnewman/songs/lyrics/FireUponTheDeep.txt (308 words)

	A Deepness in the Sky - RadioDirectory.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		I haven't yet read 'Fire upon the Deep', so I can't compare this to it, but it is certainly up there with the best full-on space operas I have ever read, e.g.
		Ultimately all the tension he builds over hundreds of pages is released in one of the most wickedly scripted finales ever, with the details of every one of the huge cast of characters coming to bear on the outcome.
		'Deepness' is unashamedly romantic in places but Vinge does horror just as well as fairy tale fantasy so it ends up well balanced enough.
	www.radiodirectory.com /ukstoreproducts1857988515.html (734 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: A Deepness in the Sky
		Vernor Vinge was born in 1944 in Wisconsin.
		While ostensibly set in the same universe as A Fire Upon the Deep, A Deepness in the Sky is so far removed in space and time that there is no need to have read the previous work in order to appreciate the new one.
		And a story with ideas and characters that grow in depth with every new chapter all the way to an ending that simply wraps up the story while incidentally explaining the use of ordinary human terms to describe the spider's lives is a measure of his success.
	www.sfsite.com /03a/deep52.htm (696 words)

	A Deepness in the Sky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A "Deepness" in Spider culture is a secure place for hibernation during the Dark periods of their star's cycle; Underhill's biggest ambition is to find a way for his people to stay awake and active throughout the periods of Dark.
		Pham in Fire was fascinating, an arrogant heroic figure who realises a large part of his memories may be constructs.
		Pham in Deepness is a wuss, he lets a couple of stupid villains run his space fleet for hundred of pages and scores of years.
	explorers.whyte.com /sf/vindsk.htm (1196 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.
		Further progress is believed impossible until the Spiders stumble upon a discovery that topples human assumptions about the limits of technology.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue99/books.html (1098 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: A Deepness in the Sky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This hefty novel returns to the universe of Vernor Vinge's 1993 Hugo winner A Fire Upon the Deep--but 30,000 years earlier.
		I highly recommend his previous novel FIRE UPON THE DEEP, and maybe it was high expectations that left me wanting more from this new novel.
		Deepness in the Sky is one of those very, very few novels that encompasses all of the above, in a beautifully interwoven story.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0812536355 (1613 words)

	A Fire Upon The Deep (Zones of Thought) Review and price (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This allows Vinge to weave a compelling, and interesting storyline into a universe where the "Powers", which vary from indifferent to maleavolence in their views toward "sophonts" (organic beings of human-level intelligence), are limited to certain regions of space, thus protecting the sophonts from their interference for the most part.
		In "A Fire Upon The Deep", an ancient recipe for just such an A.I. (artificial intelligence, or Power) is found just inside the region where such intelligence can function.
		A slow speed chase ensues deep into the "slow zone" of the galaxy, where faster than light speed space travel is impossible.
	www.wi-fitechnology.com /Wi-Fi-Products-0812515285.html (829 words)

	sffworld.com - A Fire upon the Deep
		I think I can sum up my feelings this way: Good stuff in both of his DEEP books, but at times I felt he was trying too hard to show how smart he was, almost as if he was looking down his intellectual nose.
		Now I understand that was intentional, to illustrate how similar the two races were, but I still had a problem with it and thought he could have showed the similiarities in a way that also illustrated they were "spiders" or different from humans.
		September 10th, 2001 10:44 AM The spiders are not in A Fire Upon the Deep though.
	www.sffworld.com /forums/printthread.php?t=379 (622 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.
		In "A Fire Upon the Deep," Vinge jumped forward 40,000 years to tell a vastly entertaining tale of intergalactic skulduggery, but still fell victim to the perils of anachronism.
		But the plot choices Vinge made in "A Deepness in the Sky" -- primarily, his decision to make the novel a "prequel" to "A Fire Upon the Deep" -- plunged him into a unique quandary.
	www.salon.com /tech/feature/1999/04/05/vinge/print.html (1085 words)

	Sore Eyes ~ Vernor Vinge
		In this reviewer's opinion Vinge's last novel, A Fire Upon The Deep, was the best space opera since Niven and Pournelle's The Mote In God's Eye, except that Vinge's humans were as interesting as his aliens.
		Vinge's characters are extremely believable, and have to confront their share of personal dilemmas and learn to live with the consequences of their decisions, for themselves and those they love.
		A Deepness In The Sky can be enjoyed at several different levels, and is undoubtedly going to be one of the most talked-about novels in years.
	www.thebeard.demon.co.uk /vinge.html (897 words)

	defective yeti: Books: A Fire Upon the Deep
		From that point on I have avoided the genre entirely, except to read books that (a) have won an award, or (b) are personally recommended to me by friends with trustworthy judgment, or, preferably (c) both.
		Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep fell into the former category -- it won the Hugo Award in 1991 -- but if you'd like that recommendation I'd be happy to provide it myself.
		The writing isn't the best I've read, but the scope of the story and the striking originality of the concepts make is clear why this one snagged Science Fiction's highest award.
	www.defectiveyeti.com /archives/000232.html (528 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 (594 words)

	Books, Listed by Author
		* _A Fire Upon the Deep (Millennium 1-85798-003-4, Sep ’92, £8.99, 391pp, tp, cover by Boris Vallejo) [Fire Upon the Deep] Reprint (Tor 1992) far-future sf novel, set in a Universe where the laws of physics are variable.
		* _A Fire Upon the Deep (Millennium 1-85798-127-8, Jul ’93 [Jun ’93], £4.99, 579pp, pb, cover by Boris Vallejo) [Fire Upon the Deep] Reprint (Tor 1992) far-future sf novel, set in a universe where the laws of physics are variable.
		* _A Fire Upon the Deep (Millennium 1-85798-127-8, Oct ’95 [Dec ’95], £5.99, 579pp, pb, cover by Boris Vallejo) [Fire Upon the Deep] Reissue (Tor 1992) far future SF novel set in a universe where the laws of physics are variable, depending on galactic location.
	www.locusmag.com /index/b488.html (2694 words)

	Doomsday Book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge for the 1993 Hugo Award, and won the 1992 Nebula for Best Novel, for which Vinge's book was also short-listed.
		Doomsday Book is a story of time travel, in the same series as "Fire Watch" which also won both awards and To Say Nothing of the Dog which won the Hugo.
		Reading it soon after The Dispossessed, I was struck by a couple of (presumably unintentional) similarities: the narrative structure, of alternating chapters set at different time periods; the fact that in both novels a key plot element is the petty squabbling among academics researching the nature of Time.
	explorers.whyte.com /sf/doom.htm (1602 words)

	Galaxy Bookshop - Deepness in the Sky (Fire Upon the Deep #00) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Galaxy Bookshop - Deepness in the Sky (Fire Upon the Deep #00)
		A Deepness in the Sky (Fire Upon the Deep #00)
		The prequel to "A Fire Upon The Deep", this is the story of Pham Nuwen, a small cog in the interstellar trading fleet of the Queng Ho.
	www.galaxybooks.com.au /items.asp?id=57610 (129 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - A Fire Upon the Deep - Vernor Vinge - Mass Market Paperback
		A rescue mission races against time to save a pair of children being held captive by a medieval lupine race, and recover the weapon that will keep the universe from being changed forever.
		A Fire Upon the Deep is the big, breakout book that fulfills the promise of Vinge's career to date: a gripping tale of galactic war told on a cosmic scale.
		Thousands of years hence, many races inhabit 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.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=Fh2QFOxBeW&isbn=0812515285&itm=1 (670 words)

	SciFan: Books: Fire Upon the Deep, A by Vernor Vinge (from our database of Fantasy & SF novels, anthologies, ...
		Faster-than-light travel remains impossible near Earth, deep in the galaxy's Slow Zone--but physical laws relax in the surrounding Beyond.
		Outside that again is the Transcend, full of unguessable, godlike "Powers." When human meddling wakes an old Power, the Blight, this spreads like a wildfire mind virus that turns whole civilizations into its unthinking tools.
		Pham Nuwen also appears in the nifty prequel set 30,000 years earlier, A Deepness in the Sky.
	www.scifan.com /titles/title.asp?TI_titleid=7063 (382 words)

	Recommended Reading: Reviews (V) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This is a prequel to A Fire Upon the Deep, despite which it is an excellent book.
		And while he's busy performing that bit of deft footwork, he manages to throw in yet another race of interesting aliens, some nifty stylistic tricks, an involving and interesting plot, lots of neat sense-of-wonder stuff, and some interesting characters.
		This book is certainly the equal of the excellent Fire, and possibly its better -- a rare feat indeed for a prequel.
	www.panix.com /userdirs/mlk/sf/reviews/v.xml (330 words)

	SFRevu 3.03 Focus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		However, I recently came upon Kipling's ABC stories and I was amazed: In these stories, Kipling captured so many of the techniques that I had first seen in my favorite writers of the 1930s and 1940s.
		In the "zones" series (so far: A Deepness In The Sky, A Fire Upon The Deep, and "The Blabber") I imagine that certain technologies are impossible in certain parts of the universe, and then I play out space operas in the resulting fictional cosmos.
		There we learned of the different "Zones" in the universe, where speed of thought was a function of space itself and certain technologies were simply impossible in some places as a result.
	www.sfrevu.com /ISSUES/1999/9903-4/3-03focus.html (3603 words)

	A Fire Upon The Deep (Zones of Thought) Vernor Vinge Tor Science Fiction Paperback (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A Fire Upon The Deep (Zones of Thought) Vernor Vinge Tor Science Fiction Paperback
		A Fire Upon The Deep (Zones of Thought)
		A Deepness in the Sky : A Novel (Zones of Thought)
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	Accelerating Technology Bookstore
		A Fire Upon The Deep shares, in my opinion, the title of "best SF novel" by Vernor Vinge along with the newer "A Deepness in the Sky", and is among the better SF novels ever written.
		Vinge's recurrent theme of the discontinuity (where human, or other intelligent beings, progress to a point beyond which we, in the present time, lack the intelligence to make any predictions about the future) emerges, and is dealt with by his unique "zones of thought" - limits on the intelligence of anything (machine...
		Vernor Vinge gets nearly everything right in A Fire Upon the Deep, including a couple of dead-on predictions about the internet.
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