A Fire Upon The Deep (edit title)

Timothy Gray approved Pequeño saltamontes’s request to combine 11 books, including A Fire Upon The Deep, Wednesday, November 25 2009.

Pequeño saltamontes edited the awards of A Fire Upon The Deep Tuesday, November 24 2009.

• Added an award: Hugo
• Added category of an award: Hugo Best sciencie fiction novel
• Added year of an award: Hugo 1993

Pequeño saltamontes submitted a request to combine 11 books, including A Fire Upon The Deep, Tuesday, November 24 2009.

Shelfari edited the description of A Fire Upon The Deep Saturday, August 1 2009.

• 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. Nobody knows what strange force partitioned space into these "regions of thought," but when the warring Straumli realm use an ancient Transcendent artifact as a weapon, they unwittingly unleash an awesome power that destroys thousands of worlds and enslaves all natural and artificial intelligence. Fleeing the threat, a family of scientists, including two children, are taken captive by the Tines, an alien race with a harsh medieval culture, and used as pawns in a ruthless power struggle. A rescue mission, not entirely composed of humans, must rescue the children-and a secret that may save the rest of interstellar civilization.

Shelfari edited the contributors of A Fire Upon The Deep Wednesday, July 22 2009.

• Added a contributor: Vernor Vinge: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of A Fire Upon The Deep Friday, July 17 2009.

• The coldsleep itself was dreamless.