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A fire upon the deep : a novel from the zones of thought

A Fire Upon the Deepis 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. 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. 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. Fleeing 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. A rescue mission, not entirely composed of humans, must rescue the children-and a secret that may save the rest of interstellar civilization.

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  • "A fire upon the deep"@it
  • "Fire upon the deep"@pl
  • "Fire upon the deep"@he

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  • "A Fire Upon the Deepis 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. 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. 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. Fleeing 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. A rescue mission, not entirely composed of humans, must rescue the children-and a secret that may save the rest of interstellar civilization."@en
  • "A Fire Upon the Deepis 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. 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. 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. Fleeing 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. A rescue mission, not entirely composed of humans, must rescue the children-and a secret that may save the rest of interstellar civilization."
  • "When human meddling wakes an old Power, a mind virus is spread that turns whole civilizations into unthinking tools."
  • "When scientists of the 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."@en
  • "Op de vlucht voor een "Ontaarde Macht" belandt een gezin op de planeet van de "Spitsen", een anderlingensoort, die ondanks hun middeleeuwse technologie de mensen zullen helpen om de Ontaarding tegen te houden."
  • "Scientists release an ancient Transcendent artifact that destroys thousands of worlds and enslaves all natural and artificial intelligence, only one ship escapes and the struggle begins."@en
  • "Scientists release an ancient Transcendent artifact that destroys thousands of worlds and enslaves all natural and artificial intelligence, only one ship escapes and the struggle begins."
  • "Au point de départ de ce roman touffu et complexe, une expédition archéologique dans un monde reculé redonne vie à un programme informatique qui risque de dévorer la galaxie entière. Les efforts pour s'en débarrasser seront le prétexte à la description de civilisations et de races extraterrestres d'une imagination débridée. Deux enfants abandonnés sur un monde médiéval sont le pivot du récit. [SDM]."

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  • "Fiction"
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  • "Esh ʻal pene ha-mayim"
  • "אש על פני תהום"
  • "Ogien nad otchlania"
  • "Un feu sur l'abîme"
  • "A Fire upon the deep"
  • "Ein Feuer auf der Tiefe Roman"
  • "Esh ʻal pene tehom"
  • "Plamen nad ponorom"
  • "Ein Feuer auf der Tiefe : ein Roman aus den Zonen des Denkens"
  • "Ein Feuer auf der Tiefe : Roman"
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  • "A fire upon the deep : a novel from the zones of thought"@en
  • "A fire upon the deep"@en
  • "A fire upon the deep"
  • "Un fuego sobre al abismo"@es
  • "Universo incostante"
  • "Universo incostante"@it
  • "Ogień nad otchłanią"@pl
  • "Un fuego sobre el abismo"
  • "Un fuego sobre el abismo"@es
  • "Un Fuego sobre el abismo"
  • "Plami︠a︡ nad bezdhnoĭ"
  • "Un feu sur l'abîme : roman"
  • "Dagen des oordeels"

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