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His book "a fire upon the deep" is one of the most brilliant things I've ever read. There's the singularity, a story about an AI that reboots itself from cold s
by rnk 4y ago
His book "a fire upon the deep" is one of the most brilliant things I've ever read. There's the singularity, a story about an AI that reboots itself from cold storage, a brilliant idea of life forms with a collective brain basically. Interplanetary Usenet! I command everyone to read it.
- cs702 4y agoThanks for the suggestion. I've added it to my reading list!
- edfletcher_t137 4y agoThis whole series is one of the best of that era, I don't understand why it is lauded more often. Vinge clearly has a mind for the future like none other. His "computer programmer-archeologist" idea has lived rent-free in my head since I first read A Fire Upon the Deep decades ago. And the zones of thought? Literally mind-bending. "Came here to say this". :)
- hinkley 4y agoHe earned two Hugo's and got 2 Nebula nominations for the first two books.
- etrautmann 4y agoDeepness and Fire are both lauded plenty! They’re incredible books but always in the top recs for sci fi reading.
- hoseja 4y agoDidn't like zones of thought personally, a very fantasy concept.
- rnk 4y agoThe idea we could be living in the slow, idiot part of the galaxy is so fantastic
- arethuza 4y agoI don't think there is any suggestion that the Slow Zone actually limits human intelligence - for example the human characters in Deepness in the Sky didn't all become super-intelligent because they entered a artificial bubble of the Transcend. Of course, when they descend into the Unthinking Depths there are problems.
- l3mure 4y agoSome of the concepts are interesting but his prose is rather turgid, large portions of the book are clearly filler written to showcase some idea. It's decent enough though.
- lawrenceyan 4y agoDid your autocomplete accidentally write "command" instead of "recommend", or are you doing an -f on us?
- rnk 4y agoha, i should have added a -f! I was tongue in cheek telling people to read it. It's got freaking intergalactic usenet, it's incredible. There are more ideas, I didn't want to spoil all the fun. I meant to say command ;-)