Vinge, Vernor

• A Fire Upon the Deep (8)

  • A classic science fiction book with tons of interesting ideas. This book divides up the galaxy into zones of "potential" or "thought" where the boundaries separate regions of different physical laws (Astronomical literature from the last 80 years has explored this terrain to some extent). Basically, the book follows refugees from an experiment gone wrong who are marooned on a primitive world ruled by intelligent pack-minded wolves who are all quite interesting characters themsleves. Also, there are some others trying to rescue the refugees to find some way to rid the galaxy of a blight their project released. Good simulation of net news debates, too. Well worth reading...now I can see why it got such a high rank in the top 100 list. Maybe not top 10, but a classic nonetheless.

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