This discounted ebundle of The Zones of Thought Series includes: A Fire Upon the Deep, The Children of the Sky, A Deepness in the Sky
"Vinge is one of the best visionary writers of SF today."David Brin
Thousands of years in the future, humanity is no longer alone in a universe where a mind's potential is determined by its location in space, from superintelligent entities in the Transcend, to the limited minds of the Unthinking Depths, where only simple creatures, and technology, can function. Nobody knows what strange force partitioned space into these "regions of thought," but when the warring Straumli realm use an ancient Transcendent artifact as a weapon, they unwittingly unleash an awesome power that destroys thousands of worlds and enslaves all natural and artificial intelligence.
A Fire Upon The Deep Fleeing a galactic threat, Ravna crash lands on a strange world with a ship hold full of cryogenically frozen children, the only survivors. They are taken captive by the Tines, an alien race with a harsh medieval culture, and used as pawns in a ruthless power struggle.
The Children of the Sky Ten years have passed on Tines World, and Ravna and the children have survived a war. While there is peace among the Tines, there are those among themand among the humanswho seek powerand no matter the cost, these malcontents are determined to overturn the fledgling civilization that has taken root since the humans landed.
A Deepness in the Sky Thirty-thousand years before A Fire Upon the Deep, two human groups, the Qeng Ho, a culture of free traders, and the Emergents, a ruthless society based on the technological enslavement of minds, stand on the verge of first contact with an alien race.
Other Books by Vernor Vinge
Realtime/Bobble Series The Peace War Marooned in Realtime
Other Novels The Witling Tatja Grimm's World Rainbows End
Collections Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge True Names
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