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A review by aranafyre
A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
4.0
This book took me so long to read. It was good but just took forever. I also really wanted more about the zones of thought from book 1. This did not have any of that.
Humans from two different cultures, the Qenv Ho and the Emergents, approach the on/off star and the single planet that hosts sentient spider creatures. The star is off for about a couple of hundred years and the spiders traditionally hibernate in deepnesses. The two human factions fight it out when they arrive and the survivors have to wait for the spider culture to advance in technology far enough to help rebuild their fleet.
The characters were well written and interesting. I wanted to know what happened to them. Overall I felt like the plot was a bit too tidy. Things were relatively predictable and easy though that’s not quite the right word because the characters suffer a lot. I was both happy it ended the way it did and sighed about it being exactly what I expected.
Humans from two different cultures, the Qenv Ho and the Emergents, approach the on/off star and the single planet that hosts sentient spider creatures. The star is off for about a couple of hundred years and the spiders traditionally hibernate in deepnesses. The two human factions fight it out when they arrive and the survivors have to wait for the spider culture to advance in technology far enough to help rebuild their fleet.
The characters were well written and interesting. I wanted to know what happened to them. Overall I felt like the plot was a bit too tidy. Things were relatively predictable and easy though that’s not quite the right word because the characters suffer a lot. I was both happy it ended the way it did and sighed about it being exactly what I expected.