The Witling

Paperback, 224 pages

English language

Published Nov. 28, 2006 by Tor Books.

ISBN:
978-0-7653-0886-3
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OCLC Number:
70250601

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This second novel by multiple award-winner Vernor Vinge, from 1976, is a fast-paced adventure where galactic policies collide and different cultures clash as two scientists and their faith in technology are pitted against an elusive race of telekinetic beings.

Marooned on a distant world and slowly dying of food poisoning, two anthropologists are caught between warring alien factions engaged in a battle that will affect the future of the world's inhabitants and their deadly telekinetic powers. If the anthropologists can't help resolve the conflict between the feuding alien factions, no one will survive.

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What this book taught me: Vernor Vinge is brilliant when he's writing great SciFi, but boring when he is writing pulp. This book is dated, and if you're hoping for more of what makes Across Realtime or Fire Upon The Deep so great, stay away from The Witling. I gave up in chapter 3, returning this to the friend I borrowed it from.

Subjects

  • Science Fiction - General
  • Science Fiction
  • Science Fiction And Fantasy
  • Fiction
  • Fiction - Science Fiction
  • Science Fiction - Adventure
  • Classics
  • Fiction / Science Fiction / General
  • Human-alien encounters
  • Life on other planets
  • Psychokinesis