The overall concept astonishes the aliens are developed with memorable skill and insight the plot twists and turns with unputdownable tension. No summary can do justice to the depth and conviction of Vinge's ideas. So a multi-species rescue mission is launched, led by human researcher Ravni and by Pham, a construct once part of a Power now eaten by the Blight close behind the rescuers come the forces of the Blight. Up in the Middle Beyond, meanwhile, the realization grows that the escaped Straumli ship may contain something that will help defeat the Blight. Two human children, Johanna and Jefri, survive-only to become pawns in a Tine power struggle. One ship alone survives the Straumli disaster fleeing into the Low Beyond, the ship crash-lands on a planet inhabited by Tines, multi-bodied, pack-minded aliens with a warlike medieval culture. The civilizations of the High Beyond realize their peril when even transcendent Powers prove no match for the Blight. A human colony of the High Beyond, the Straumli Realm, experiments with an ancient database, thereby unwittingly unleashing an unstoppable, enslaving predator, the Blight. An unknown being or force has partitioned the universe into ``zones of thought'': at the bottom is the Slow Zone, where intelligence is modest and the speed of light a limiting factor in the Beyond, where multi-light-speed ultradrive travel is possible, thousands of smart races flourish and the Transcend is inhabited by godlike Powers, to which state many races of the Beyond aspire. Urn:oclc:865338883 Republisher_date 20150421032824 Republisher_operator Scandate 20150411071618 Scanner, riveting far-future saga involving evil gods, interstellar war, and manipulative aliens, from the author of The Peace War and the splendid Marooned in Realtime. Urn:lcp:fireupondeep00ving_0:lcpdf:82c694db-7fda-406f-b07d-798fef9d0b19 Extramarc University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PZ) Foldoutcount 0 Identifier fireupondeep00ving_0 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t9d541v77 Invoice 11 Isbn 9780312851828Ġ312851820 Lccn 91039020 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL1558124M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 20:16:29 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA1130501 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition 1st ed.

A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge