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Tor Essentials presents new editions of science fiction and fantasy titles of proven merit and lasting value, each volume introduced by an appropriate literary figure. After thousands of years of searching, humans stand on the verge of first contact with an alien race. Two human groups: the Qeng Ho, a culture of free, innovative traders, and the Emergents, a ruthless society based on the technological enslavement of minds.The group that opens ...

Four time Hugo Award winner Vernor Vinge has taken readers to the depths of space and into the far future in his bestselling novels A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky. Now, he has written a science-fiction thriller set in a place and time as exciting and strange as any far-future world: San Diego, California, 2025.Robert Gu is a recovering Alzheimer's patient. The world that he remembers was much as we know it today. Now, as he reg...

Two science fiction novels combined into one epic conveying the experience of travelling through millions of years of time.

Now in a new trade paperback edition for the Tor Essentials line, A Fire Upon the Deep is sure to bring a new generation of SF fans to Vinge's award-winning works.A Hugo Award-winning Novel!"Vinge is one of the best visionary writers of SF today."-David BrinThousands of years in the future, humanity is no longer alone in a universe where a mind's potential is determined by its location in space, from superintelligent entities in the Transcend,...

Im Amerika des 22. Jahrhunderts wurden Wissenschaft und Technologie abgeschafft. Alles, was das religiös-fundamentalistische Regime stört, wurde in gewaltige, blasenartige Sphären verbannt, einschließlich unliebsamer Widerständler. Was keiner ahnt: In den Blasen wartet ein Geheimnis, und ein Krieg gegen das vermeintlich friedliche Regime scheint unausweichlich ...

Questo testo è un'antologia rappresentativa della produzione di Vernor Vinge, illustra lo spirito con cui è stata composta: idee originali per la fantascienza, sviluppate con capacità narrativa.

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The Hugo Award-winning masterpiece of modern space opera - a gripping tale of galactic war told on a cosmic scale.

Vernor Vinge is a computer scientist, mathematics professor and science fiction author. He is best known for his Hugo Award-winning Zones of Thought series, including novels A Fire Upon the Deep and The Children of the Sky. He published True Names in 1981 and it was awarded the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award in 2007.Vinge retired from teaching at San Diego State University in 2000 and currently sits on the selection committee for the Free Softw...

Vinge's masterpieces together at last, in one epic volume.

The Hugo and John W. Campbell Memorial Award-winning prequel to the magnificent A FIRE UPON THE DEEP.

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Ten years have passed on Tines World, where Ravna Bergnsdot and a number of human Children ended up after a disaster that nearly obliterated humankind throughout the galaxy. Ravna and the pack animals for which the planet is named have survived a war, and Ravna has saved more than one hundred Children who were in cold-sleep aboard the vessel that brought them. While there is peace among the Tines, there are those among them - and among the hum...

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Hugo-Award winner bestselling author Vernor Vinge's first novel

Since his first published story, "Apartness, " appeared in 1965, Vernor Vinge has forged a unique and awe-inspiring career in science fiction as his work has grown and matured. He is now one of the most celebrated science fiction writers in the field , having won the field's top award, the Hugo, for each of his last two novels.Now, for the first time, this illustrious author gathers all his short fiction into a single volume. This collection i...

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The exciting sequel to "The Peace War" by the author of "A Fire Upon the Deep