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juicef 's review for:
A Fire Upon the Deep
by Vernor Vinge
An interesting book with a very strange and unique sense of physics that is easily 100 pages too long. If you can withstand the clumsy, almost indecipherable beginning, you’ll eventually break through and understand what’s going on.
Here’s a fun made up example of what to expect when starting the story:
“He reached for the zyglophon. It was humming amid the convergence. Somewhere in the other ship the ablonter extended into the dooplefonger, which could only mean one thing.”
You just have to push through the introduction of what seems like complete nonsense until it finally makes some sense. Even then there’s some vagueness in the book surrounding a lot of the concepts introduced and some conveniently tidy plot devices that felt a little lazy.
Nonetheless, the best part of the story takes place with the interpersonal relationships of the characters. Most notably between the alien races. While their seeming commonality of thought and willingness to accept one another at face value comes across as another plot convenience it does make it easier to witness those relationships.
Here’s a fun made up example of what to expect when starting the story:
“He reached for the zyglophon. It was humming amid the convergence. Somewhere in the other ship the ablonter extended into the dooplefonger, which could only mean one thing.”
You just have to push through the introduction of what seems like complete nonsense until it finally makes some sense. Even then there’s some vagueness in the book surrounding a lot of the concepts introduced and some conveniently tidy plot devices that felt a little lazy.
Nonetheless, the best part of the story takes place with the interpersonal relationships of the characters. Most notably between the alien races. While their seeming commonality of thought and willingness to accept one another at face value comes across as another plot convenience it does make it easier to witness those relationships.