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Tens of thousands of years hence, many sentient species inhabit a universe where a mind's potential is determined by its location in space—from superintelligent entities in the Transcend, to the struggling minds of the Unthinking Depths, where only simple creatures and technology can function. Nobody knows what A Fire Upon the Deep force partitioned space into these 'zones 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, enslaving all their intelligences. 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 local power struggle. A rescue party, not entirely composed of humans, must free the children—and retrieve a secret that may save the rest of interstellar civilization. We can only serve the continental US. Shop Magic Singles. Magic: the Gathering. Other CCGs. Roleplaying Games. Board Games. Games A Fire Upon the Deep. Fantasy Flight. Gift Cards. Prerelease Kit Deal. New Releases. Community Events. Books Print. Out Of Stock! We will notify you when this A Fire Upon the Deep becomes available. Available on:. Tags: books, First in Series, macmillan-publishers-mps, new-releases-may, Series, subject-alien-contact, subject-hard-science- fiction, subject-space-exploration, Subject: Science Fiction, Trade Paperbacks. You may also like. Sign Up. Open for browsing, curbside pickup, and mail order! Email: sales pandemoniumbooks. All rights Reserved. Powered by BinderPOS. A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge, Paperback | Barnes & Noble®

The coldsleep itself was dreamless. Three days ago they had been getting ready to leave, and now they were here. Little Jefri complained about missing all the action, but Johanna Olsndot was glad she'd A Fire Upon the Deep asleep; she had known some of the grownups on the other ship. Now Johanna drifted between the racks of sleepers. Waste heat from the coolers made the darkness infernally hot. Scabby gray mold grew on the walls. The coldsleep boxes were tightly packed, with narrow float spaces every tenth row. There were places where only Jefri could reach. Three hundred and nine children lay there, all the kids except herself and her brother Jefri. The sleep boxes were light-duty hospital models. Given proper ventilation and maintenance, they would have been good for a hundred years, but Johanna wiped her face and looked at a box's readout. Like most of the ones on the inside rows, this was in bad shape. For twenty days it had kept the boy inside safely suspended, and would probably kill him if he stayed one day more. The box's cooling vents were clean, but she vac'd them again—more a prayer for good luck than A Fire Upon the Deep maintenance. Mother and Dad were not to blame, though Johanna suspected that they blamed themselves. The escape had been put together with the materials at hand, at the last minute, when the experiment turned wicked. The High Lab staff had done what they could to save their children and protect against still greater disaster. And even so, things might have worked out if—. Daddy says there's no more time. He says to finish what you're doing an' come up here. Tami and Giske and Magda Johanna pulled herself through the floatway, A Fire Upon the Deep bumped into Jefri coming from the other direction. He grabbed her hand and hung close as they drifted toward the hatch. These last two days he hadn't cried, but he'd lost much of the independence of the last year. Now his eyes were wide. In the cabin beyond the hatch, their parents were strapping themselves in. Trader Arne Olsndot looked up at her and grinned. Have a seat. We'll be on the ground in less than an hour. Ignore the jumble of equipment, the odors of twenty days' confinement. A Fire Upon the Deep looked as dashing as any adventure poster. The light from the display windows glittered off the seams of his pressure suit. He was just in from outside. Jefri pushed across the cabin, pulling Johanna behind him. He strapped into the webbing between her and their mother. Sjana Olsndot checked his restraints, then Johanna's. You will learn something. Mom smiled. I'm talking about the landing. This won't be like an agrav or a ballistic. Dad had just detached their shell from the cargo carrier. They could never have landed the whole thing on one torch. Dad A Fire Upon the Deep something with the hodgepodge of controls he had softwired to his dataset. Their bodies settled into the webbing. Around them the cargo shell creaked, and the girder support for the sleep boxes groaned and popped. Something rattled and banged as it "fell" the length of the shell. Johanna guessed they were pulling about one gravity. Jefri's gaze went from the outside display to his mother's face and then back. Johanna almost smiled; Jefri knew he was being diverted, and was trying to play along. See on the middle window? That camera is looking straight down. You can actually see that we're slowing down. Johanna guessed they weren't more than a couple of hundred kilometers up. Arne Olsndot was using the rocket glued to the back end of the cargo shell to kill all their orbital velocity. There weren't any other options. They had abandoned the cargo carrier, with its agrav and ultradrive. It had brought them far, but its control automation was failing. Some hundreds of kilometers behind them, it coasted dead along their orbit. All they had left was the cargo shell. No wings, no A Fire Upon the Deep, no aero shielding. The shell was a hundred-tonne carton of eggs balanced on one hot torch. Mom wasn't describing it quite that way to Jefri, though what she said was the truth. Somehow she had Jefri seeming to forget the danger. Sjana Olsndot had been a pop writer-archaeologist at Straumli Realm, before they moved to the A Fire Upon the Deep Lab. Dad cut the jet, and they were in free fall again. Johanna felt a wave of nausea; ordinarily she never got space sick, but this was different. The image of land and sea in the downward window slowly grew. There were only a few scattered clouds. The coastline was an indefinite recursion of islands and straits and inlets. Dark green A Fire Upon the Deep along the coast and up the valleys, shading to black and gray in the mountains. There was snow—and probably Jefri's ice— scattered in arcs and patches. It was all so beautiful She heard metallic banging on the cargo shell as the trim jets tipped their craft around, aligning the main jet downwards. The right-hand window showed the ground now. The torch lit again, at something like one gravity. The edge of the display darkened in a burnout halo. Sjana Olsndot was right; it was a novel way to descend from orbit, not a preferred method under A Fire Upon the Deep normal circumstances. It was certainly not intended in the original escape plans. They were to meet with the High Lab's frigate—and all the adults who could escape from the High Lab. And of course, that rendezvous was to be in space, an easy transfer. But the frigate was gone now, and they were on their own. Her eyes turned unwillingly to the stretch of hull beyond her parents. There was the familiar discoloration. It looked like gray fungus Her parents didn't talk about it much even now, except to shoo Jefri away from it. A Fire Upon the Deep Johanna had overheard them once, when they thought she A Fire Upon the Deep her brother were at the far end of the shell. Dad's voice almost crying with anger. We have the kids. I think this was the best we could hope for. Somehow A Fire Upon the Deep are carrying the answer to all the evil we started. Johanna hadn't quite had the A Fire Upon the Deep to ask them about it. There had been strange things at the High Lab, and toward the end, some quietly scary things; even people who were not quite the same. Minutes passed. They were deep in the atmosphere now. The hull buzzed with the force of the air stream—or turbulence from the jet? But things were steady enough that Jefri was beginning to get restless. Much of the down-looking view was burned out by airglow around the torch. The rest was clearer and more detailed than anything they had seen from orbit. A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1) by Vernor Vinge

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And no matter the cost, these malcontents are determined to overturn the fledgling civilization Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on the verge of discovering space flight. Now one scientist, Dan Sylveste, will stop at nothing to solve the Amarantin riddle before ancient history repeats itself. With no other resources at his disposal, Sylveste forges a dangerous alliance with the cyborg crew of the starship Nostalgia for Infinity. But as he closes in on the secret, a killer closes A Fire Upon the Deep on him because the Amarantin were destroyed for a reason. By: Alastair Reynolds. Set a few decades from now, Rainbows End is an epic adventure that encapsulates in a single extended family the challenges of the technological advances of the first quarter of the 21st century. The information revolution of the past 30 years blossoms into a web of conspiracies that could destroy Western civilization. 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When A Fire Upon the Deep - the first starship designed and crewed by dolphins - discovers a derelict ancient armada with evidence of the first sentient species ever, she sets off a war between dozens of galactic races eager to use the information for their own advancement. By: David Brin. In a moving story of sacrifice and triumph, human scientists establish a relationship with intelligent lifeforms - the cheela-living on Dragon's Egg, a neutron star where one Earth hour is equivalent to hundreds of their years. The cheela culturally evolve from savagery to the discovery of science, and for a brief time, men are their diligent teachers. By: Robert L. The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The A Fire Upon the Deep fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles were at stake. There could be no surrender. Within the cosmic conflict, an individual crusade. Deep within a fabled labyrinth on a barren world, a Planet of the Dead A Fire Upon the Deep to mortals, lay a fugitive Mind. Both the Culture and the Idirans sought it By: Iain M. For short-lived races like humans, space is dominated by the complicated, grandiose Mercatoria. To the Dwellers who may live billions of years, the galaxy consists of their gas-giant planets - the rest is debris. His work consists of rummaging for data in their vast, disorganised memories and libraries. Unfortunately, without knowing A Fire Upon the Deep, he's come close to an ancient secret of unimaginable importance. The once-utopian Chasm City - a domed human settlement on an otherwise inhospitable planethas been overrun by a virus known as the Melding Plague, capable of infecting any body, organic or computerized. Now, with the entire city corrupted - from the people to the very buildings they inhabitonly the most wretched sort of existence remains. The stakes are raised when Tanner Mirabel's search brings him face to face with a centuries-old atrocity that history would rather forget. Jernau Morat Gurgeh. The Player of Games. Master of every board, computer and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel and incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous game Mocked, blackmailed, almost murdered, Gurgeh accepts the game, and with it the challenge of A Fire Upon the Deep life - and very possibly his death. In the stunning continuation of the epic adventure begun in HyperionSimmons returns us to a far future resplendent with drama and invention. Onthe world of Hyperion, the mysterious Time Tombs are opening. And the secrets they contain mean that nothing - nothing anywhere in the universe - will ever be the same. For nearly a billion years, every known sentient species in the universe has been the result of genetic and cultural guidance - or "uplifting" - by a previously uplifted patron race. Then humans are discovered. Having already uplifted chimps and dolphins, humanity clearly qualifies as an intelligent species, but did they actually evolve their own intelligence, or did some mysterious patron race begin the process, then suddenly abandon Earth? One night when he was 10, Tyler stood in his backyard and watched the stars go out. They flared into brilliance, then disappeared, replaced by an empty black barrier. It would shape their lives. By: Robert Charles Wilson. On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest. Once, she was the Justice of Toren - a colossal starship with an artificial intelligence linking thousands of soldiers in the service of the Radch, the empire that conquered the galaxy. Now, an act of treachery has ripped it all away, leaving her with one fragile human body, unanswered questions, and a burning desire for vengeance. By: Ann Leckie. 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 A Fire Upon the Deep space into these A Fire Upon the Deep 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 A Fire Upon the Deep, must rescue the children-and a secret that may save the rest of interstellar civilization. A galaxy where faster-than-light communication is possible, but only at A Fire Upon the Deep low bandwidth A sentient plague of fascist oppression that spreads like a virus throughout the galaxy. Wolflike creatures with pack minds, so that each pack member is both a body appendage and a piece of the individual's personality The plot moves fast and the scenery is spectacular. The characters are a bit less fleshed-out than in some of Vinge's other books, but that's OK Overall, one of the best space opera books ever, right up there with David Brin's "Uplift" books and Dan Simmons' "Hyperion". What would have made A Fire Upon the Deep better? I honestly couldn't listen past the first hour. The narration is so annoying that I just couldn't take it. I'm looking forward to reading the paper version. I A Fire Upon the Deep like I A Fire Upon the Deep listening to an awful version of Nick at Night. The cartoonish voices he uses Very odd inflection. This is the story of what happens to humans and other residents of the galaxy when they encounter more ancient beings in the far beyond. The Internet or whatever the Internet has become in this future time plays an interesting role, in that various powers use it to spread information and disinformation in the growing war. I really liked that the heroine was a librarian, so her knowledge of how to find information and act on it made her critical to the humans' survival. The story and premise are really good, but god that narration. 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