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This is why I like Vernor Vinge - sci-fi authors tend to have a scientific focus based on their background, e.g. physicists tend to focus on physics world build
by SolarNet 9y ago
This is why I like Vernor Vinge - sci-fi authors tend to have a scientific focus based on their background, e.g. physicists tend to focus on physics world building - because he is a computer scientist and is capable of expressing ideas around that at many different levels.
- r00fus 9y agoYeah, Fire upon the Deep had literally the best first chapter of any AI-based scifi book I'd ever read (I listened to the audiobook). I really wish Vinge would revisit that universe - Deepness in the Sky was great but it was a prequel of sorts.
- nybble41 9y agoVinge did write a sequel to The Fire Upon the Deep. The title of the sequel is "The Children of the Sky".