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

Vernor Vinge

Start date: September 1, 2016

Finish date: September 30, 2016

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Mar 22, 2010 Jamie rated it really liked it

Shelves: sci-fi, military, space, fiction, first-contact

This is a book that is very difficult to get into because it presents so many new concepts all at once: a dormant godlike computer virus on the edge of the galaxy; races of humanoids, tree-like beings who move along in motorized planter boxes, and doglike aliens who are sentient only in packs; and a new way of viewing the galaxy as having increasing layers of technological complexity based on distance from the center.

This is "hard" sci-fi at it's hardest (i.e., most difficult to ingest). Yet it ...more

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Mar 21, 2012 travelgirlut rated it liked it

This one started out a bit slow for me. I kept at it because I didn't have anything else to read at the time, and I'm glad I did. The story was good. The main bad guy, the Blight, is never really explained well, and the end of the book left me kind of meh on how it all wrapped up. It took me a long time to get attached to the dog-like race. I'm not an animal fan and being inside their heads was just not as fun as other parts of the story. But overall I enjoyed it and will probably pick up anothe ...more

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