After the Battle on Starship Hill: Prolog to The Children of the Sky

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After the Battle on Starship Hill: Prolog to The Children of the Sky

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Author(s):

Vernor Vinge

First Pub:

2011

Genre(s):

Science Fiction

First Read:

2015

Times Read:

1 time

Rating:

Chapters:

See 6

Two years after the Battle on Starship Hill

0 - Chapter 0

1 - Chapter 1

2 - Chapter 2

Three years after the Battle on Startship Hill

3 - Chapter 3

Internal ID:

1606

Series:

<- The Children of the Sky

Zones of Thought*

#4 of 4

Zones of Thought*

A science fiction series by Vernor Vinge

View this series in the book list

1) A Fire Upon the Deep
2) A Deepness in the Sky
3) The Children of the Sky
4) After the Battle on Starship Hill: Prolog to The Children of the Sky

Copyright:

Dedication:

No dedication.

First Sentence:

How do you get the attention of the richest businessperson on the world?

Last Sentence:

May contain spoilers

There remained the toughest job of the day - to convince Tycoon that no matter how big the market, no matter how great the desire, there were some dreams that were just not going to come true.

Comments:

Comments may contain spoilers

This contains the first four chapters from The Children of the Sky.

Synopsis not on file
Extract (may contain spoilers)

After a moment or two of impolite poking, Tycoon said, “So, how would you know about the mantis monsters?”

“I witnessed their starship Oobii descend from the sky.” Vendacious used the human name of their ship. The sounds were flat and simple, alien. “I saw its lightning weapon bring down a great empire in a single afternoon.”

Tycoon was nodding. Most East Coast packs took this version of Woodcarver’s victory to be a fantasy. Evidently, Tycoon was not one of those. “You’re saying nothing new here, fellow—though few packs know the name of the flying ship.”

“I know far more than that, my lord. I speak the mantis language. I know their secrets and their plans.” And he had one of their datasets in his right third pannier, though he had no intention of revealing that advantage.

“Oh really?” Tycoon’s smile was sharp and incredulous, even unto his puppies. “Who then are you?"

Added: 31-Jan-2015

Last Updated: 23-Apr-2020

Publications

13-Sep-2011

Tor Books

Kindle e-Book

Date Issued:

13-Sep-2011

Format:

Kindle e-Book

Pages*:

Read:

Once

Cover Link(s):

World Cat

amazon.com

Internal ID:

1479

Publisher:

Tor Books

ISBN:

1-466-80006-2

ISBN-13:

978-1-466-80006-9

Country:

United States

Language:

English

From amazon.com description:

"After the Battle on Starship Hill" is more than 12000 words of prologue from Vernor Vinge's forthcoming novel, The Children of the Sky. Taking place on Tines World, this mini e-book describes events of the years immediately following the conclusion of the predecessor novel, A Fire Upon the Deep.

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Notes and Comments:

Released free as an e-Book by amazon.com.

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.

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