/lit/ - Literature

Damn does It feel good to read a Vernor Vinge book. To be sure I'll like a book ahead of time is a comfy feeling.

'A Deepness in the sky' will be my fourth by him and will finish out the 'Zones of Thought' series for me. 40pgs in so far. Anyone have thoughts on the book and maybe some relation to the others in the series?

So far it seems to be more space/hard SF than 'Children of the sky' but not quite like the peaks of 'a fire upon the deep' but I am very early in the book.

Damn does It feel good to read a Vernor Vinge book. To be sure I'll like a book ahead of time is a comfy feeling.

'A Deepness in the sky' will be my fourth by him and will finish out the 'Zones of Thought' series for me. 40pgs in so far. Anyone have thoughts on the book and maybe some relation to the others in the series?

So far it seems to be more space/hard SF than 'Children of the sky' but not quite like the peaks of 'a fire upon the deep' but I am very early in the book.

>>17768420
I'm reading it right now and I'm at about the halfway point. It's infinitely better than the first one. It doesn't have any of the pacing issues or dull chapters the first one suffered from. The connection to A Fire Upon the Deep is very loose. It takes place tens of thousands of years in the past and focuses on the Qeng Ho making first contact with intelligent alien life. If it stays as good as it has been for the full 800 pages, I can see why it's considered one of the SF greats by many.

>>10001069
Speaker for the Dead
A Deepness in the Sky

The second one in particular goes absolutely wild with it. Even in a meta sense of how the alien side of the story is told to you as the reader, which you'll figure out eventually.