In a 2003 interview, Vernor Vinge points to what may be a reason for the overall reaction to the book. I also like grand sweep stories such as Olaf Stapledon w

In a 2003 interview, Vernor Vinge points to what may be a reason for the overall reaction to the book. I also like grand sweep stories such as Olaf Stapledon wrote. I find a collision there, since many of the things I like to talk about -- interstellar empires or even interplanetary empires -- now appear likely to be post-human-era events. That's sad, since the present-day audience and I are not post-human. It's very hard to write stories that realistically talk about such futures. https://web.archive.org/web/20131203143751/http://www.strangehorizons.com/2003/20030915/vinge.shtml https://web.archive.org/web/20131203143751/http://www.strang...