mishacoleman 's review for:

A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge

4.25

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Excellent, classic sci-fi! The worldbuilding is great, the detail in the space environment is rich without turning into a slog. So often in sci-fi alien races are just humans with forehead lumps tacked on, but Vinge takes his space spiders seriously and I really appreciated it. I also loved how seriously he takes mind control and its implications. The individual characters are well-developed. It's not easy to keep a page turner going for 700+ pages, but I couldn't put this space epic down. And the ending was

so satisfying! Everyone gets just what they had coming.