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	Deepness in the Sky - Vernor Vinge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Qeng Ho resistance is thin, consisting of legendary genius and onetime leader Pham Nuwen, whose failed dream of a Qeng Ho galactic empire forced him into exile; young trader Ezh Vinh; and, secretly, Ezh's love, linguist Trixia Bonsol, now Focused and translating the Spiders' language.
		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 Qeng Ho, a fleet of interstellar traders, are in a race with the Emergents, another band of traders, to the planet Arachna.
	www.bookfinder.us /review1/0613214234.html (2591 words)

	Sore Eyes ~ Vernor Vinge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Qeng Ho are a race of traders, travelling between the scattered worlds occupied by humankind in ramscoop vessels and using cryogenic storage to minimise the number of subjective years spent "on watch" between the stars.
		The Qeng Ho have watched human societies rise and fall several times on countless worlds, and have the patience and the long-term perspective to set out on voyages realising that if their target society has fallen then they may have to wait some years before they have customers who are worth trading with.
		The Qeng Ho use the interstellar nets to distribute sufficient knowledge to allow customer civilisations to pull themselves up to the point where they are likely to be worth trading with, but have no illusions that they can save a civilisation from collapse.
	www.thebeard.org /vinge.html (897 words)

	Special Circumstances: A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
		The Qeng Ho are a group of traders and investors - humans in the far future - larger than any civilization they are a decentralized commercial entity that operates in a vast region of space near the galaxy rim....
		The Qeng Ho are a group of traders and investors -- humans in the far future -- larger than any civilization they are a decentralized commercial entity that operates in a vast region of space near the galaxy rim.
		Early incidents in the novel cause the the Emergents and the Qeng Ho to be thrown together.
	www.cs.sfu.ca /~anoop/weblog/archives/000163.html (1417 words)

	We are breathing in the dark \| Columns \| SCI FI Weekly
		He is found again in time to participate incognito in a great Qeng Ho expedition to OnOff, a variable star (hundreds of years dark, 35 or so bright) orbited by a single planet on which, against terrible odds, a civilization is growing.
		Unfortunately, the Qeng Ho are almost beaten to the draw by another human civilization, the Emergents, whose fleet arrives in the OnOff system at the same time.
		The Emergents sneak-attack the Qeng Ho, and both fleets are almost destroyed in battle.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/books/column/sfw4078.html (939 words)

	A Deepness in the Sky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The planet's inhabitants, named "Spiders" by the humans for their resemblance to arachnids, have reached a stage of technological development very similar to that of Earth's humans in the early 20th century.
		Many Qeng Ho become Focused against their will, and the Emergents retain the rest of the population under mass surveillance.
		The Qeng Ho trading culture gradually starts to dilute this totalitarian régime, however, as the Emergents discover certain benefits of tolerated and restricted free trade; and the two human cultures merge to some extent over many years of forced co-operation.
	www.1bx.com /en/Qeng_Ho.htm (730 words)

	A Deepness in the Sky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		A Qeng Ho fleet, Pham Nuwen on board incognito, meets with a fleet from a dubious authoritarian culture in the vicinity of a mysterious object, the OnOff star, which flares into life every 250 years.
		The Qeng Ho and their rivals clash disastrously, leaving the Qeng Ho defeated and the remnants of both fleets under the sinister Tomas Nau and his even more sinister colleague Ritser Brughel.
		While I found the political message congenial (Qeng Ho free-market traders are morally superior to Nau and his fellow slave-owners; Underhill's constitutional monarchy is a nicer place than the neighbouring religious dictatorship) it was too heavy-handed.
	explorers.whyte.com /sf/vindsk.htm (1212 words)

	SingaporeMoms - Parenting Encyclopedia - A Deepness in the Sky
		Two expeditions set out to trade and exploit, the Qeng Ho traders (presumably named after Cheng Ho) and the Emergents, an autocratic culture that literally enslaves the mind.
		As they approach the star, a surprise attack by the Emergents leaves both fleets crippled, and they are forced to cooperate and to wait for the Spider civilization to achieve a greater technological maturity to help them refurbish their ships.
		One of the interesting concepts in the book is that the Qeng Ho measure time only in terms of seconds since the notion of days, months, and years has no usefulness between various star systems.
	www.singaporemoms.com /parenting/Qeng_Ho (357 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
		The Qeng Ho fleet was first to arrive at the OnOff star.
		That was nothing new to the traders of the Qeng Ho--though normally the meetings were not so unwelcome, and there was the possibility of trade.
		Qeng Ho and Emergents, the two expeditions, had danced around each other for days, probing for intent and firepower.
	www.fictionwise.com /ebooks/eBook5649.htm (779 words)

	A Deepness in the Sky
		The Qeng Ho mix free-market economics with a strong family ethic and mutual cooperation.
		The Emergents and the Qeng Ho independently notice that there are artificial radio signals coming from the immediate neighborhood of the On/Off Star, a star with a really strange periodicity of about thirty years "on" and two hundred years "off"--apparently really off, although that seems to be impossible.
		They launch a surprise attack aimed at seizing control of the Qeng Ho fleet, which is successful enough that in the aftermath, they do have the upper hand in running things until the awakening of the Spiders, who are dormant during the star's Off phase.
	www.nesfa.org /reviews/Carey/deepnesssky.htm (561 words)

	Review: Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky, reviewed by Amy Harlib
		Investigating this enigmatic stellar phenomenon is the innovative Qeng Ho interstellar free trading fleet, hoping that understanding the star's weird physics may lead to an improved star drive.
		Awaiting the re-ignition of the On/Off star, the Qeng Ho struggle for freedom from the tyranny of the Emergents' mind-control and for the lives of the unsuspecting innocents on the planet below.
		As the story flows from the viewpoints of the Qeng Ho, the Emergents, and the Spiders, the narrative offers continual new ideas and plot twists that are gripping and exciting throughout, while the themes of first contact, the horrors of slavery and mind-control, and the senselessness of war add provocative depth.
	www.strangehorizons.com /2001/20010709/vinge.shtml (1270 words)

	A Deepness in the Sky \| Book Reviews \| SCI FI Weekly
		Radio signals from an alien world draw two competing human civilizations to investigate: the interstellar merchants of the Qeng Ho fleet and the ruthless, authoritarian Emergents.
		An armed clash between the rival expeditions leaves the Qeng Ho at the mercy of the Emergents, and both sides without the resources to return home.
		The Emergents, poised to conquer the Spiders at their most vulnerable moment, believe they have the situation well in hand, but little do they realize that a boorish old programmer is in fact Pham Nuwen, a Qeng Ho legend, waiting patiently for the right moment to strike.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/books/sfw4057.html (552 words)

	PomeRantz » Blog Archive » The Librarian Empire
		Pham has visions of a Qeng Ho empire of sorts, though not really an empire in the sense of ruling over planets so much as a trading empire where planetary civilizations are persistent customers over the span of centuries and millenia.
		His vision is that the Qeng Ho will purchase the best of technology and culture from all of the worlds that it trades with, and sell that to other worlds and even back to the origin world centuries later after the civilization that originated it collapses.
		Pham’s Qeng Ho are the ultimate archivists — though admittedly, archivists-for-hire.
	www.ibiblio.org /pomerantz/blog/?p=435 (370 words)

	VERNOR VINGE - A DEEPNESS IN THE SKY
		The Qeng Ho intend to exploit this new civilization in the name of commerce, while a little known human settlement called the Emergents have come for conquest.
		The Qeng Ho quickly succumb but not before inflicting heavy damage upon the Emergents.
		You have the Emergents plans for the Qeng Ho and Arachna, you have Pham's intrigue to wrest control back for his people, and of course himself, then there is the political conflict between the spiders themselves.
	books.jayslair.com /vv_deepness.html (673 words)

	coldforged.org » Blog Archive » A Deepness in the Sky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Pham is the “leader” of the Qeng Ho, a loosely related collection of traders spanning light-years of time and space.
		The Qeng Ho are understandably excited by the discovery and embark on an expedition to the OnOff system, somehow finding and dragging the initially reluctant Nuwen along with them.
		A separate starfaring population, the Emergents, are closing in on the OnOff system, and it doesn’t seem as though they would be very interested in the Qeng Ho’s normal modus operandi of free, peaceable trade.
	www.coldforged.org /archives/2003/01/24/a-deepness-in-the-sky (1174 words)

	Andreas Buchkritiken - DeepnessInTheSky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Qeng Ho und Emergents einigen sich zunächst auf eine Zusammenarbeit, aber sehr schnell kommt es zum Verrat und während des kurzen und heftigen Kampfes (bei dem die Qeng Ho den Kürzeren ziehen) verlieren beide die Möglichkeit, zu ihren Heimatplaneten zurückzukehren.
		Die Emergents nutzen die Zeit, um die Bibliothek der Qeng Ho zu plündern und sich deren Wissen einzuverleiben.
		Die Qeng Ho proben kurze Zeit den Aufstand, müssen sich aber geschlagen geben.
	buchkritiken.starke-muegge.de /index.php/Buchkritiken/DeepnessInTheSky (465 words)

	A Deepness in the Sky
		The sophisticated traders of Qeng Ho, an interstellar culture where the individuals spend the centuries of the slow, sub-light trips in cold sleep, are matched against a local civilization: the authoritarian Emergents are seeking the same price.
		While lacking the negotiating and technical sophistication of the Qeng Ho, the Emergents have ruthlessness, and experience in treachery, and secret and chilling methods of intelligence amplification which may tilt the balance of power in the scatterred human population.
		The struggle pits a group of naive Qeng Ho against exploitive, but still human Emergents, and a mysterious, Lazarus Long-type old man. The plot spares few punches, and the sympathetic characters suffer pain and death.
	www.inotherworlds.com /Deepness-in-the-Sky.html (998 words)

	PNN: Review of Vernor Vinge's A Deepness In The Sky
		The Qeng Ho are space traders, plying their slower than light ships between stars and spinning their lives over thousands of years by spending much of their journeys asleep.
		The Qeng Ho work, and trade where they can, and everyone watches the spiders and plots for the time when contact is finally made.
		But it is the human and spider relationships that drive this book, as Vinge spins a dizzying web of parallels between Qeng Ho and Emergents, humans and aliens, humans and computers, and author and characters.
	www.plokta.com /pnn/deepness19990307.html (674 words)

	SciFan: Books: Deepness in the Sky, A by Vernor Vinge (from our database of Fantasy & SF novels, anthologies, ...
		Pham is the legendary founder of the Qeng Ho, a group of intergalactic traders who use cryogenics and computer networks to maintain their society across interstellar distances.
		Now Pham is back, disguised as a harmless old man who is part of a Qeng Ho mission to the OnOff star, a sun that takes its name from an unusual cycle of shining for 35 years and then going into dormancy for 215.
		A group of ships from a despotic human society calling itself the Emergents is also en route to the system, and it's clear that their goal is not a friendly trade accord...
	www.scifan.com /titles/title.asp?TI_titleid=4627 (400 words)

	KillerSudoku.co.uk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		They use it as a weapon against the unwitting Qeng Ho expedition, infecting them during a meeting with a time-delayed variant of the disease.
		As both groups of humans approach the On/Off star, a surprise attack by the Emergents, timed to coincide with the mindrot symptoms, leaves both fleets crippled.
		Time-measurement details provide an interesting concept in the book: the Qeng Ho measure time primarily in terms of seconds, since the notion of days, months, and years has no usefulness between various star systems.
	www.killersudoku.co.uk /title-A_Deepness_in_the_Sky.html (727 words)

	ipedia.com: A Deepness in the Sky Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The planet's inhabitants, named Spiders, are going through a period technologically very similar to Earth's 20th century.
		Two expeditions set out to trade and exploit, Qeng Ho traders, and the Emergents, an autocratic culture that literally enslaves the mind.
		As they approach the star, a surprise attack by the Emergents leaves both fleets crippled,and they are forced to cooperate and to wait for the Spider civilization to achieve a greater technological maturity to help them refurbish their ships.
	www.ipedia.com /a_deepness_in_the_sky.html (402 words)

	A Deepness in the Sky - Vernor Vinge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Qeng Ho are an entire society devoted to trade and to maintaining reputation; their worst condemnation is to say that someone does not care about return business.
		An important part of this story is the collision of the Qeng Ho with a planetary society with very different values, the Emergents.
		And in the second place, he is contrasting two business management styles: the decentralized trade networks of the Qeng Ho and the corporate hierarchy of the Emergents.
	www.troynovant.com /Stoddard/Vinge/Deepness-in-the-Sky.html (717 words)

	Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky, Science Fiction, Hugo Award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Anticipating the incredible riches to be obtained by the group that opens trade with the aliens, the Emergents attack the Qeng Ho and the aftermath of their fight leaves both missions crippled and dependent on the Spider's ability to develop technology advanced enough to help them.
		Awaiting the re-ignition of the On/Off star, the Qeng Ho struggle for freedom from the tyranny of the Emergents' mind-control and for the lives of the unsuspecting innocents on the planet below, for the victors intend totally exploit them.
		As the star's On-cycle progresses, the Spiders, emerging from their dormancy and galvanized by a genius scientist with a vital scheme to bootstrap his civilization out of the near-extinction of the Darks, have an agenda of their own unsuspected by either the Qeng Ho or the Emergents.
	www.scifidimensions.com /Jan01/deepness.htm (457 words)

	Book Description (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Pham Nuwen is living in anonymity among the Qeng Ho interstellar trading fleet.
		But the slumbering Spiders' vulnerability has attracted another lurking presence - the Emergents, a band of traders whose plans for Arachna are more sinister than anything the Qeng Ho could envision.
		As Pham's underground resistance cell struggles against its torturers in space, a wondrously gifted clan of Spiders on the planet below fights another battle - to advance their technology quickly enough to defeat their terrestrial foes, and to somehow overcome the invisible enemy lurking above.
	www.q8books.com /Q8B/showbook_Desc.asp?BookID=34208 (177 words)

	Vernor Vinge: A Deepness in the Sky - an infinity plus review
		While delivering in full on the narrative promise of this buildup - he is a superb storyteller, expert and knowing in his exploitation of the raw stuff of space opera - Vinge systematically develops his deeper intellectual scheme.
		In the human half of the plot, Nau is triumphant in the opening space battle; he enslaves the Qeng Ho, converting some into expert slaves by means of an intricate brainwashing known as Focus.
		Those on Vinge's right side - the surviving Qeng Ho, who must somehow overcome defeat, the Emergents who can reform, the progressive Spiders, especially the friends and family of Sherkaner Underhill - are, despite some flaws, highly sympathetic.
	www.iplus.zetnet.co.uk /nonfiction/deepness.htm (1068 words)

	A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge (Olson)
		In the end of Human space in which the story is set, the Qeng Ho is a loosely organized society of traders who live mostly on their ships and carry goods and technology between the stars.
		The highest of high technologies, while well beyond what we can do ourselves today, is not beyond what we can understand, and in fact not beyond what we can expect to have achieved by 2050 or so.
		Captain Sam Park has brought a large Qeng Ho fleet to an out-of-the-way world near the edge of Human space.
	www.nesfa.org /reviews/Olson/DeepnessInTheSky.html (670 words)

	Vernor Vinge Keeps Raising the Bar for Space Opera
		That's why it's astonishing how enthralling Vinge has made the Qeng Ho, a society of traders wandering the stars in Bussard ramjets.
		Wandering traders are a stereotype common to STL stories, but Vinge performs some alchemy with the Qeng Ho's technical abilities and intricate society that breathes new life into tired concepts.
		The Emergents want to conquer the Qeng Ho and the Spiders; the Qeng Ho want to escape the Emergents and make contact with the Spiders; the Spiders mostly want to mind their own business.
	www.space.com /sciencefiction/books/deepness_sky_000110.html (525 words)

	b l u e j a c k : reviews : Vernor Vinge -- A Deepness in the Sky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		There are, however, interstellar traders, known as the Qeng Ho: a loose association of trading families with a certain common set of morals (or lack thereof).
		Easier imagined than accomplished, however, as the aliens are just discovering nuclear weapons and are themselves approaching the brink of mutual destruction, while the humans barely trust each other: whoever brings home a trading contract with the aliens will have achieved almost unimaginable wealth.
		Once the Qeng Ho discover the secret to the Emergent's success things only grow more complicated, for the only surviving Qeng Ho with a chance to reverse the balance of power in their own favor are very tempted by the evil technology of the Emergent culture.
	www.bluejack.com /b2/sff/bk/deepnesssky.html (741 words)

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