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

by Vernor Vinge

John Clute

the Indian Summer of its early 1990s pomp,

Vernor Vinge,

Iain M. Banks

Greg Bear

C. J. C...

Dan S...

Larry Niven’s Ringworld

E. E. Smith’s pre–World War Two Lensmen world.

Stephen Baxter,

Linda Nagata,

Alastair Re...

Charles S...

Poul Anderson’s Brain Wave (1954),

megatext

Larry Niven

Poul Anderson

Aniara Society

Robert Abernathy

“Junior” (Galaxy, January 1956).

So why should I risk my job to change his mind?

sophont.

transsapience.

sophonts

hotcarts,

surpayment

multiptychs

“Your curiosity will kill you someday.”

This isn’t a choir, you know.

dataset,

armiphlage

coralesks

the Straumli Blight.

sophonts

Had Pham Nuwen felt anything for her? Hell, did he even have a good time?

A dream of competence, too closely confronted.

the Qeng Ho.

optigens,

Don’t stop me, I’m on a roll.

Harmonious Repose.” “Rest in Peace, eh?”

You get so used to everyday tools, sometimes you forget what it must be like without them.

Jefri Olsndot, you are someone I want very much to meet.

“Saint(?) Rihndell’s Repair Harbor.” (Pham: “If you’re a ‘saint,’ you gotta be honest, right?”)

What do you have that might be useful to me, and how can I persuade you to part with it?

bansai

jorakorns,

Blueshell just never stopped wheeling and dealing.

gigajoules

If irony were something that made sound, they would all be deaf by now.

fjordlands.