joeyh reviewed A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge (Zones of Thought, #1)
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
I had read Vinge's earlier books, but missed this one until 1997 when I
learned of it through a forwarded message from SWIL. (www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/org/swil/lists/sfdt.html) I remember that the title put me off, I was not expecting anything like this.
As an evocation of a certain period of Usenet, this surely helped inspire me to build olduse.net. Which involved digging up an archive and reanimating it, and I hope will end well..
All of which says nothing about AFOtD as a peice of fiction, but anything I could say has been said before anyway.