Science Fiction· United States
A Fire Upon the Deep
by Vernor VingeAggregate Editorial Score62/100
★Hugo Award
Published 1993605 pagesEnglish
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Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep (1993) stands as one of the most significant works of science fiction of its era. In a universe where intelligence is a function of physical location in the galaxy, a human ship accidentally releases a malevolent superintelligence that may destroy the galaxy. Vinge's Hugo Award winner is a mind-expanding space opera with some of science fiction's most inventive alien species—the pack-minded Tines. Themes of superintelligence, space opera, alien minds run through the work. The book has received recognition from Hugo Award 1993.
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