The author is Vernor Venge (pron. "Vengie"?); He's not exactly prolific. He's done a couple of other books in the same world. They're good too. But his day-job

The author is Vernor Venge (pron. "Vengie"?); He's not exactly prolific. He's done a couple of other books in the same world. They're good too. But his day-job was teaching maths and CS. I wonder what you could do with the film-rights to that story. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fire_Upon_the_Deep https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fire_Upon_the_Deep