A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)

by Vernor Vinge

cemeterium’s

Sammy tried to imagine just where in the moral pantheon this fellow would fit.

thuttered

But debts owed to a madman are still real debts.

G star…

light-years.

We’ve got thousands of years of sneakiness on these newcomers.

pauperizing the competition,

dyspeptically

exotherms.

tarants.

demarchy.

I/O logic

I’m not a traitor, damn it!

bioweirs

Are you listening, Podmaster Nau? Whatever your desires, soon we will know the truth.

six hundred seconds.

Surely there must be more offensive things she could say when things got this messed up.

I/O devices.

“One hundred forty-five kilowatts per square meter.”

145kW/m^2.

Ksecs

Can she even bathe herself? Vinh glanced downward, at the doorway.

Don’t lead him astray!”

Amazing Science.

amandors,

celestial mechanics

Q-nova,

fast square-wave generator

Suivire.

Alexander

Macedon

But why didn’t you? I was in your power.

inter-phonation

They probably named the child Hrunkner out of friendship. God in deepest earth.

Deep Secret reports are sent to him and he doesn’t have time to read them—and he’s the cobber who started it all.

As it was, sometimes Unnerby would have cheerfully killed the cobber.

gymnets,

foraminiafera

“And it’s not just that we don’t understand sex!” said Gokna.

socializing

I’d follow her through Hell, you know that.

There are things you can cure and things you can’t; be grateful for what Trinli’s localizers will make right.

airsnow

biowaves

agris

meta-crylates.

Tomas will kill me, like all the others…. But if he doesn’t? If he doesn’t, then nothing in God’s universe can save him.

mindrot’s

A sane person couldn’t justify losing friends and family to concentrate so hard.