Zones of Thought: The Children of the Sky (Hardcover)

from rbrohman

I'm not a huge fan of the "fallen god" sort of books, where remnants of a technologically advanced race struggle to rebuild after some catastrophe sends them back to pre-technology life. But the collective minds of the Tine world adds an interesting twist, and I enjoy the concept of the Zones of ...

from DanTarlin

This is the sequel to A Fire Upon the Deep, which was a great book. That was a page-turner with multiple stories all converging thrillingly to a satisfying climax. This one moves slower... much slower. The first book had action onboard a ship heading to the Tines World, a deadly blight in hot pur...

from joeyreads

Nowhere near the fun of A Fire Upon the Deep or subtlety of A Deepness in the Sky. Took the least interesting part of AFUtD, the part that drags for me most when I read it, and expanded it to a whole book. Also added lots of airships, presumably because steampunk sells these days. Disappointing, ...

from DLMorrese

I first heard of Vernor Vinge when I saw him at the 100 Year Starship Symposium in Orlando in 2011. This is the second of his books I've found at the library and read. The first was Rainbow's End.The Children of the Sky is the third book in his 'Zones of Thought Series.' As I did not (yet) read t...

from Karlstar

Vinge picks up where Fire Upon the Deep left off. There are still some stranded humans way out on the border in 'slow' space, with the wolf-packish, group intelligence Tines. The humans have had a predictable affect on technology, though the extreme differences with the aliens sends this off on a...