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A Deepness in the Sky

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1999
2015
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See 8
Prolgue
Part One - One Hundred Sixty Years Later -
Chapters 1-13
Part Two
Chapters 14-43
Part Three
Chapters 44-66
Epilogue - Seven Years Later -
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Copyright © 1999 by Vernor Vinge
To Poul Anderson,

In learning to write science fiction, I have had many great models, but Poul Anderson's work has meant more to me than any other.  Beyond that, Poul has provided me and the world with an enormous treasure of wonderful, entertaining stories - and he continues to do so.
    On a personal note, I will always be grateful to Poul and Karen Anderson for the hospitality that they  shows a certain young science fiction writer back in the 1960s.

-V.V.
The manhunt extended across more than one hundred light-years and eight centuries.
May contain spoilers
Somewhere down there the old Spider might still sleep, waiting for his lady lost... and beginning on his greatest Lurk of all.
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Added: 31-Jan-2015
Last Updated: 18-Dec-2019

Publications

 01-Apr-2007
Tor Books
Kindle e-Book
In my libraryI read this editionOrder from amazon.comHas a cover imageBook Edition Cover
Date Issued:
01-Apr-2007
Format:
Kindle e-Book
Cover Price:
$8.99
Pages*:
796
Read:
Once
Internal ID:
1550
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-812-53635-5
ISBN-13:
978-0-812-53635-5
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
James Frenkel - Editor
From amazon.com description:

After thousands of years searching, humans stand on the verge of first contact with an alien race. Two human groups: the Qeng Ho, a culture of free traders, and the Emergents, a ruthless society based on the technological enslavement of minds.The group that opens trade with the aliens will reap unimaginable riches. But first, both groups must wait at the aliens' very doorstep for their strange star to relight and for their planet to reawaken, as it does every two hundred and fifty years....Then, following terrible treachery, the Qeng Ho must fight for their freedom and for the lives of the unsuspecting innocents on the planet below, while the aliens themselves play a role unsuspected by the Qeng Ho and Emergents alike.More than just a great science fiction adventure, A Deepness in the Sky is a universal drama of courage, self-discovery, and the redemptive power of love.

A Deepness in the Sky is a 1999 Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novel and the winner of the 2000 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
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Notes and Comments:
Read this eBook just after finishing A Fire Upon the Deep by Vinge.

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Author(s)

Vernor Vinge  
Birth: 02 Oct 1944 Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA
Notes:
From the Kindle version of the novel A Deepness in the Sky:

VERNOR VINGE won the Hugo Award for his novel A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), and has been a finalist for the Hugo Award four times, for the novels The Peace War (1984) and Marooned in Realtime (1986), for the novella True Names (1981), and for a novelette. His best-known works are admired for their extraordinary combination of groundbreaking science fiction concepts and epic adventures of great emotional power. Sought widely by publications as disparate as Rolling Stone and Wired, he is in constant demand as a speaker to scientific forums in the field of cybernetics and especially the area of human and machine intelligence. He has had a number of short stories published in Analog and other science fiction magazines. He is a professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at San Diego State University and currently lives in San Diego.

Awards

2000Center for the Study of Science FictionCampbell Award Winner
2000Libertarian Futurist SocietyPrometheus Award Winner
2000Locus MagazineBest SF Novel Nominee
2000Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of AmericaNebula Award - Best Novel Nominee
2000Serendip FoundationArthur C. Clarke Award Nominee
2000World Science Fiction SocietyHugo Award - Best Novel Winner
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