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A Fire Upon the Deep
by Vernor Vinge
Re-read. I first started this book in fourth or fifth grade. It was probably the first non-Star Wars science fiction I ever read (maybe some Jules Verne before it). I understood very little of it. I think I finally finished it sometime in middle school, when I understood enough. I certainly remembered a lot of what happened when I reread it.
The book has a lot of imagination, and the ending was honestly quite moving. Probably the best part of the book. That and the introduction. Sometimes the writing felt a little pat. Vinge doesn’t have much of a style. But what he does have generally works. Some of the descriptions could’ve been a bit better, although some of that was my fault for not knowing all the terminology.
The book has a lot of imagination, and the ending was honestly quite moving. Probably the best part of the book. That and the introduction. Sometimes the writing felt a little pat. Vinge doesn’t have much of a style. But what he does have generally works. Some of the descriptions could’ve been a bit better, although some of that was my fault for not knowing all the terminology.