Zones of Thought: A Fire Upon The Deep (Series #1) (Paperback)

from RandyStafford

My reaction to reading this book in 1992. Spoilers follow. A great book, excellently paced -- particularly riveting at the end. While I didn't like it quite as well as his Marooned in Realtime, the latter book didn't have the wonderful alien Tines though. They are very well-done, well worked out ...

from apatt

This book comes highly recommended by Redditors and several "best of sf" lists. However, seeing that Vinge is a scientist I did not expect much from this book, some cool, believable sf concepts at the most. The book did not start well for me with silly names like "Wickwrackrum" popping up and a c...

from klh

A truly imaginative vision, where the laws of physics change gradually the farther one is from the galactic core, underpins this saga. The familiar Vinge fascination with networks and communication plays a central role in a tale involving transcendent 'Powers', interstellar traders, ancient civil...

from felius

Space Opera on a grand scale, describing a galaxy richly populated with alien species - a galaxy in which humans are bit players. Most sci-fi has at least one "big idea", but this has enough of them to put other books to shame. One of these ideas - the concept of separate "zones" in space, region...

from bemidt

This book may be the perfect Space Opera. There's epic space battles, there's romance, there's a very cool doomsday scenario, there are neat and creative aliens. There's everything a SF fan could possibly want, but for some reason I was disappointed at the end of this book. I still can't quite pu...