A Deepness in the Sky

When the spidey senses are tingling, better watch out for 8 legged surprises spinning towards your colonialists. It´s a shame that insects, reptiles, amphibians, plants, and fungi are always playing a secondary or superficial, not very detailed antagonist role, that no writer deems or wants to blow u......more

In the 'The Sixth Sense', the character Malcolm tries to tell a story. Unfortunately, it's a bad story, which Cole immediately picks up on, and comments, "You have to add some twists and stuff." I tend to think that the essence of a well-crafted story is the unexpected. A good story has unexpected tr......more

Vernor Vinge, a scientist who can tell a good yarn, another anomaly among genre writers, the other anomalous authors being China Miéville and David Brin, and they are all bald! Makes me want to shave my head, I bet Patrick Stewart can write amazing books if he wanted to, make it so Pat! A few months......more

A Deepness in the Sky: Might have been interesting at half the length Originally posted at Fantasy Literature A Fire Upon the Deep was a big success for Vernor Vinge, winning the 1993 Hugo Award. Seven years later, he followed up with A Deepness in the Sky, set 20,000 years earlier in the same univers......more

This was awesome! Taking place in the past of the previous volume, here, humanity is divided into two factions: the Qeng Ho (traders who have developed a common interstellar culture for humanity) and Emergents (they enslave selected human minds). After a long time of space exploration, all humanity h......more