+100. A Fire Upon The Deep totally predates this. Many of the main characters in the story aren't even humans, they're hive mind wolves and plants, and hyper in

+100. A Fire Upon The Deep totally predates this. Many of the main characters in the story aren't even humans, they're hive mind wolves and plants, and hyper intelligent AIs. And the Blight doesn't even have any goal, it's more or less a virus that wants to survive, other than that, we don't know it's motives, and the hyper-intelligences don't really care much about humans. The humans in the story are portrayed as fools who don't have the wisdom of the older races and end up digging up stuff they shouldn't be messing with.