From: Hal Finney (hal@rain.org)
Date: Wed Jan 06 1999 - 10:17:26 MST
I see that A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge's prequel to A Fire
Upon the Deep is coming out in February from TOR books. From Amazon:
"Readers will marvel at Vernor Vinge's science fiction creation about
Qeng Ho who awaits planet Arachna's awakening into a Golden Age of
technology while other traders lurk nearby."
I didn't think I'd like this Qeng Ho angle. A primitive culture, trapped
in the Slow Zone? What I forgot is that this was the perspective of the
Beyond. From our POV the Qeng Ho is a super-advanced civilization, with
technology comparable to the advanced travellers in Marooned in Realtime.
The prologue is online at http://www.tor.com/sampleDeepness.html. It's good.
Hal
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