A Deepness in the Sky

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606 pages

English language

Published Feb. 15, 1999 by Tor.

ISBN:
978-0-312-85683-0
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OCLC Number:
40150541

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The story of the Spiders, inhabitants of a planet where the sun regularly stops shining for periods of 200 years, during which they are frozen in ice. The novel picks them up emerging from their most recent hibernation in a frenzy of activity and innovation to make up for lost time. By the author of A Fire upon the Deep.

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reviewed A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge (Zones of Thought, #2)

Captivating. Though-provoking

It is as good as the first book. Much more than "just a space opera", it offers lots of action coupled with deep pondering over culture, society, and technology. How would you envision a living, biological virus that is able to spread over computer networks?