Show #28, due out mid-March, will be on Vernor Vinge’s Hugo Award-winning “A Fire Upon the Deep”.
Start reading now… it’s about 600 pages of space-faring adventure!
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Oooooo! I’m looking forward to your discussion of this one. I’m a big fan of space opera, and this is a modern classic, complete with truly alien aliens (the Tines), ancient threats awoken, and thought provoking high concepts.
I tried reading book, but stoppped a 1/3 through, just found it too boring. Will interesting to see what the ninjas make if it.
This is one of my all time favorites. This and the Prequel “Deepness in the Sky”. To me putting it down halfway through was not an option – Fire Upon the Deep is non-stop action!
The way Vinge flicks between two groups of protagonists – one in a Space-Opera race-against-time and a second group, children trapped in a pseudo-medeval war – is just breathtaking. When you add to the the way in which he chucks around philosophies like softballs and you don’t get a minute to rest.
The different species (animal, vegetable, mineral and other) are pretty smegging inventive – software dieties and buggy-riding houseplants…
Seriously hope you ninjas like this one.