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Vernor Vinge
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Series
Zones of thought volume 2
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
"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 humans--who...
2) Rainbows End
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
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Description
Hugo Award winner Vinge pens a sci-fi thriller set in San Diego, California, in the year 2025. As world-famous poet Robert Gu regains his faculties from Alzheimer's through a cure developed during the years of his near-fatal decline, he discovers that the world has changed--and so has his place in it.
Author
Series
Zones of thought volume 1
Pub. Date
1992
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Description
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.
Author
Series
Zones of thought volume Prequel
Pub. Date
1999
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Description
The Qeng Ho and the Emergents, both interstellar traders, battle over the spoils of the awakening planet of Arachna, while the inhabitiants below prepare to ward-off their terrestrial foes.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Drawing from the horizons of science, today's leading thinkers reveal the hidden threats nobody is talking about-and expose the false fears everyone else is distracted by. What should we be worried about? That is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ("The world's smartest website"-The Guardian), posed to the planet's most influential minds. He asked them to disclose something that, for scientific reasons, worries them-particularly scenarios...
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