Vernor Vinge -- Available Books

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A Deepness in the Sky
Vernor Vinge / Hardcover / Published February 1999
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This hefty novel returns to the universe of Vernor Vinge's 1993 Hugo winner A Fire Upon the Deep--but 30,000 years earlier. The story has the same sense of epic vastness despite happening mostly in one isolated solar system. Here there's a world of intelligent spider creatures who traditionally hibernate through the "Deepest Darkness" of their strange variable sun's long "off" periods, when even the atmosphere freezes. Now, science offers them an alternative... Meanwhile, attracted by spider radio transmissions, two human starfleets come exploring--merchants hoping for customers and tyrants wh...

A Deepness in the Sky
Vernor Vinge / Mass Market Paperback / Published January 2000
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This hefty novel returns to the universe of Vernor Vinge's 1993 Hugo winner A Fire Upon the Deep--but 30,000 years earlier. The story has the same sense of epic vastness despite happening mostly in one isolated solar system. Here there's a world of intelligent spider creatures who traditionally hibernate through the "Deepest Darkness" of their strange variable sun's long "off" periods, when even the atmosphere freezes. Now, science offers them an alternative... Meanwhile, attracted by spider radio transmissions, two human starfleets come exploring--merchants hoping for customers and tyrants wh...

A Fire upon the Deep
Vernor Vinge / Mass Market Paperback / Published February 2000
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"The author of The Peace War and Marooned in Realtime has created a rarity--a unique blend of hard science, high drama, and superb storytelling" (Library Journal). A rescue mission races against time to save a pair of children being held captive by a medieval lupine race, and recover the weapon that will keep the universe from being changed forever. HC: Tor.

True Names: And the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier
Vernor Vinge, James Frenkel / Paperback / Expected April 2000
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In 1981, three years before publication of William Gibson's Neuromancer, Vernor Vinge's criticaly acclaimed novella "True Names" invented the concep t of cyberspace. This book is the first forum to explore the blossoming discoveries and groundbreaking applications, both current and future, on the new frontier of the Internet and all its subsets.

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