I didnt like anything about those dog-pack aliens. While I think its a great novel, I enjoyed certain plot elements much more than others: I loved the description of the world at Relay, the waking of the Blight, its spreading, its motivations and methods. They are taken captive by the Tines, an alien race with a harsh medieval culture, and used as pawns in a ruthless power struggle. I havent read many sci-fi novels, but Im almost finishing a Fire upon the Deep. 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.įleeing this galactic threat, Ravna crash lands on a strange world with a ship-hold full of cryogenically frozen children, the only survivors from a destroyed space-lab. Thousands of years in the future, humanity is no longer alone in 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. “Vinge is one of the best visionary writers of SF today.”-David Brin A Fire Upon the Deep is a rousing space chase, with an impressively intricate plot that allows for both an epic and intimate scale.

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