Against a background depicting a space-time continuum stratified into zones of thought, the author has created a rarity-a unique blend of hard science, high drama, and superb storytelling. Responding to the crippled ships distress signal, a rescue mission races against time to retrieve the children and recover the weapon they need to prevent the universe from being changed forever.

Tor books by Vernor Vinge Zones of Thought Series A Fire Upon The Deep A Deepness In The Sky The Children of The Sky Realtime/Bobble Series The Peace War Marooned in Realtime Other Novels The Witling Tatja Grimms World Rainbows End Collections Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge True Names Review Quotes Fleeing a menace of galactic proportions, a spaceship crashes on an unfamiliar world, leaving the survivors-a pair of children-to the not-so-tender mercies of a medieval, lupine race. They are taken captive by the Tines, an alien race with a harsh medieval culture, and used as pawns in a ruthless power struggle. Fleeing this galactic threat, Ravna crash lands on a strange world with a ship-hold full of cryogenically frozen children, the only survivors from a destroyed space-lab. Nobody knows what strange force partitioned space into these regions of thought, but when the warring Straumli realm use an ancient Transcendent artifact as a weapon, they unwittingly unleash an awesome power that destroys thousands of worlds and enslaves all natural and artificial intelligence. David Brin Thousands of years in the future, humanity is no longer alone in a universe where a minds 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. Book Synopsis A Hugo award-winning Novel! Vinge is one of the best visionary writers of SF today. Urn:oclc:841672547 Scandate 20111101192657 Scanner the Book From a four-time Hugo Award-winning author comes this New York Times Notable Book of the Year-a space saga awesome in conception, and a riveting novel of conflict, love, loss, and survival.

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