- Fiction, Hugo Award Winner, Life on other planets, Science fiction
Thousands of years in the future, humanity is no longer alone in a universe where a mind's potential is determined by its location in space, from superintelligent entities in the Transcend, to the limited minds of the Unthinking Depths, where only simple creatures, and technology, can function.
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Epic, contemporary, earnest and grave.
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- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Vernor Vinge
- First published
- 1992
- Pages
- 605
- Publisher
- SFBC, Tor Books, Millennium
- Editions
- 24
- Language
- French, heb, English
- ISBN
- 9781250237750
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