A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky are the books that opened my eyes to the utter incomprehensibility and weirdness of what intelligent alien life w

A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky are the books that opened my eyes to the utter incomprehensibility and weirdness of what intelligent alien life would really be like if it's out there. I also credit the Transcend as being the first plausible, secular explanation for "gods" that I ever came across back in my militant atheist days. These stories will be with me until I am gone, too. Thank you, Vernor. RIP.