authortedcross 's review for:

A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge

5.0

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Four and a half stars. Excellent writer with an incredible imagination. I wasn't thrilled with the doggie pack/group mental arc, but it was still well written, and I did really enjoy the space opera parts very much. It suffered a tad from the simple fact that with so many billions of species and with dangers causing entire species to be wiped out, it was impossible for the mind to wrap itself around the incredible amount of death going on, making it too casual. But that is a problem with the sheer scale of the galaxy, and that is one of the great things about the story, causing you to truly try to grasp the size and complexity of the galaxy. Not sure it's a story I would want to read again (hence the half star), but certainly one I'm glad I read once.