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reviewed A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge (Zones of Thought, #1)

Vernor Vinge: A Fire Upon The Deep (Paperback, 1993, Tor Science Fiction) 4 stars

Thousands of years in the future, humanity is no longer alone in a universe where …

Review of 'A Fire Upon The Deep' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

Wow. The first three chapters alone blew me away with all the cool ideas. I was so fired up to talk about this with my friends, but when I did I had a difficult time trying not to sound like a raving lunatic. No wonder [a:Jo Walton|107170|Jo Walton|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1353809579p2/107170.jpg] wrote:

"Any one of the ideas in A Fire Upon the Deep would have kept an ordinary writer going for years."


Highly recommended for anyone who is looking for space-faring scifi that is actually challenging.