A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge

A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge

Fleeing a menace of galactic proportions, a spaceship crashes on an unfamiliar world, leaving the survivors - a pair of children - to the not-so-tender mercies of a medieval, lupine race. Responding to the ship's distress signal, a rescue mission races against time to retrieve the children.

Vinge, Vernor: -

Vernor Vinge is the multi Hugo Award-winning author of A Fire Upon the Deep, A Deepness in the Sky, and Rainbow's End. Known for his rigorous hard-science approach to his science fiction, he became an iconic figure among cybernetic scientists with the publication in 1981 of his novella True Names, which is considered a seminal, visionary work of Internet fiction. His many books also include Marooned in Realtime and The Peace War.

Born in Waukesha, Wisconsin and raised in Central Michigan, Vinge is the son of geographers. Fascinated by science and particularly computers from an early age, he has a Ph.D. in computer science, and taught mathematics and computer science at San Diego State University for thirty years. He has gained a great deal of attention both here and abroad for his theory of the coming machine intelligence Singularity. Sought widely as a speaker to both business and scientific groups, he lives in San Diego, California.

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ISBN 13	9780812515282
ISBN 10	0812515285
Title	A Fire Upon the Deep
Author	Vernor Vinge
Series	Zones Of Thought Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	St Martin's Press
Year published	2010-08-31
Number of pages	613
Prizes	Winner of Hugo Award (Novel) 1993
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