Vernor Vinge -- Recent and Upcoming Books

Upcoming

True Names: And the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier
Vernor Vinge, James Frenkel / Paperback / Expected April 2000
Price: $14.95 Not Yet Published
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.

Recent

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.

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 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...

Across Realtime
Vernor Vinge / Paperback / Published December 1991
(Publisher Out Of Stock)
Previously published in three parts, The Peace War, Marooned in Realtime, and The Ungoverned, this is "a marvelous extrapolative tale, to which no summary can do justice, with a gripping blend of high-tech razzle-dazzle and good old-fashioned murder mystery--all spiced with . . . the time-travel theme".--Kirkus Review. Reissue.

The Peace War
Vernor Vinge / Unknown Binding / Published June 1984
(Publisher Out Of Stock)

Threats and Other Promises
Vernor Vinge / Unknown Binding / Published date unknown
(Publisher Out Of Stock)

Marooned in Realtime
Vernor Vinge / Unknown Binding / Published date unknown
(Publisher Out Of Stock)

Witling
Vernor Vinge / Unknown Binding / Published date unknown
(Publisher Out Of Stock)

True Names and Other Dangers
Vernor Vinge / Unknown Binding / Published date unknown
(Publisher Out Of Stock)

Tatja Grimm's World
Vernor Vinge / Unknown Binding / Published date unknown
(Publisher Out Of Stock)

The Peace War
Vernor Vinge / Unknown Binding / Published date unknown
(Publisher Out Of Stock)

The Witling
Vernor Vinge / Unknown Binding / Published date unknown
(Publisher Out Of Stock)

The Peace War
Vernor Vinge / Unknown Binding / Published date unknown
(Publisher Out Of Stock)

Marooned in Realtime
Vernor Vinge / Unknown Binding / Published date unknown
(Publisher Out Of Stock)

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