I know we all have different tastes and many have reviewed this book in a positive light (that is why I bought this in the first place).

I have never taken the time to write a review before this one. This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more? The pack people/animals reminded me of the aliens in Robert Reed's 'Beyond the Veil of Stars' or the swamp like creature in Clarke's 'The City and The Stars', both great books. I don't know if that was the right thing to do or not. Narrator was good, although he made all aliens sound cartoonish. There are too many good books out there for me to beating myself in the head waiting on something to happen that I care about. Space Opera seems to be like Soap Opera, watch on Monday and Friday, skip through the week cause nothing new is going to happen.

At about the 18th chapter I was looking for a gun to put myself out of my misery. Then it went to drool slow moving, I don't care, I am confused, just like that. It had a fast start with some really cool things happening. This started out really great, through the first six chapters I thought I was really going to enjoy the book. This is about my fourth space opera by the fourth author and I have yet to really like any of them. I am coming to the conclusion that Space Opera is not for me. A rescue mission, not entirely composed of humans, must rescue the children-and a secret that may save the rest of interstellar civilization.Ī Fire upon the Deep, which began the Zones of Thought series, is the winner of the 1993 Hugo Award for Best Novel. 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.įleeing the threat, a family of scientists, including two children, are taken captive by the Tines, an alien race with a harsh medieval culture, and used as pawns in a ruthless power struggle. Thousands of years hence, many races inhabit 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. A Fire Upon the Deep is the big, breakout book that fulfills the promise of Vinge's career to date: a gripping tale of galactic war told on a cosmic scale.

A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge