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jamieperez 's review for:
A Fire Upon the Deep
by Vernor Vinge
Huge thanks to Adam Good for recommending this one -- it goes into my SciFi top 5, methinks. That this book was published in '92 is actually a little mind-blowing given its anticipation of where the "Net" would go, much more nuanced in that than other info / cyber involved things I've read (but this book is by no means cyberpunk). Great "reality-building," great in shifting scale and perspective from massive to local, from political to personal, great imagination and playing out of big ideas. There are certainly things I'd nip and tuck (some of the characters seem naive beyond comfort -- he seems to draw on that kind of suspense a little too long at times), but this is a great great book. I'll seek out his other work (I hear he has a short novel worth reading, and there is at least one more novel written in this universe).
The short review version: if you liked Dune and you liked Light you will like this. If you haven't read Dune or Light, you should. And you should read this, too.
The short review version: if you liked Dune and you liked Light you will like this. If you haven't read Dune or Light, you should. And you should read this, too.