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A Deepness in the Sky: SF Masterworks [Vernor] by Vernor Vinge
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
After thousands of years searching, humans stand on the verge of first contact with an alien race. Two human groups: the Qeng Ho, a culture of free traders, and the Emergents, a ruthless society based on the technological enslavement of minds. The group that opens trade with the aliens will reap uni ...Show more
A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: Zones of Thought
In 1992 Vernor Vinge amazed the science fiction world with this epic novel of star-spanning adventure. It won the Hugo Award for Best Novel, and has since become a landmark in the field. Now, with the long awaited sequel "The Children of the Sky "about to be published, we are proud to offer the first-ev ...Show more
A Fire upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: Zones of Thought
Now in a new trade paperback edition for the Tor Essentials line, A Fire Upon the Deep is sure to bring a new generation of SF fans to Vinge's award-winning works. A Hugo Award-winning Novel "Vinge is one of the best visionary writers of SF today."-David Brin Thousands of years in the future, humanity i ...Show more
Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge
Category: Fiction
San Diego, California, 2025. Robert Gu is a recovering Alzheimer's patient. The world that he remembers was much as we know it today. Now, as he regains his faculties through a cure developed during the years of his near-fatal decline, he discovers that the world has changed and so has his place in it. ...Show more
Rainbow's End by Vernor Vinge
Category: Science Fiction
Four time Hugo Award winner Vernor Vinge has taken readers to the depths of space and into the far future in his bestselling novels A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky. Now, he has written a science-fiction thriller set in a place and time as exciting and strange as any far-future world: San ...Show more
True Names: Penguin Worlds by Vernor Vinge
Category: Classic | Series: Penguin Worlds Ser.
The first hint that Mr Slippery had that his own True Name might be known came with the appearance of two black Lincolns humming up the long dirt driveway . . .' Roger Pollack is Mr Slippery, a computer hacker who inhabits the 'other plane' - where like-minded individuals penetrate the world's computers ...Show more
Zones of Thought by Vernor Vinge
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy
The Hugo Award winning A FIRE UPON THE DEEP and its epic companion novel A DEEPNESS IN THE SKY, set in the same universe but 20,000 years earlier, were benchmarks for SF in the last decade of the 20th century. In FIRE 'Vinge presents a galaxy divided into Zones - regions where different physical constra ...Show more
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