{"title":"Vernor Vinge","description":"Vernor Vinge, author of such acclaimed novels as True Names, The Peace War, Marooned in Realtime, A Fire Upon the Deep, and A Deepness in the Sky, has won four Hugo Awards. A mathematician and computer scientist, he lives in San Diego, California.","products":[{"product_id":"rainbows-end-paperback","title":"Rainbows End - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFour time Hugo Award winner Vernor Vinge has taken readers to the depths of space and into the far future in his bestselling novels \u003ci\u003eA Fire Upon the Deep\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Deepness in the Sky\u003c\/i\u003e. 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRobert Gu is a recovering Alzheimer's patient. The world that he remembers was much as we know it today. Now, as he regains his faculties 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. He was a world-renowned poet. Now he is seventy-five years old, though by a medical miracle he looks much younger, and he's starting over, for the first time unsure of his poetic gifts . Living with his son's family, he has no choice but to learn how to cope with a new information age in which the virtual and the real are a seamless continuum, layers of reality built on digital views seen by a single person or millions, depending on your choice. But the consensus reality of the digital world is available only if, like his thirteen-year-old granddaughter Miri, you know how to wear your wireless access--through nodes designed into \u003ci\u003esmart\u003c\/i\u003e clothes--and to see the digital context--through \u003ci\u003esmart\u003c\/i\u003e contact lenses. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith knowledge comes risk. When Robert begins to re-train at Fairmont High, learning with other older people what is second nature to Miri and other teens at school, he unwittingly becomes part of a wide-ranging conspiracy to use technology as a tool for world domination. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a world where every computer chip has Homeland Security built-in, this conspiracy is something that baffles even the most sophisticated security analysts, including Robert's son and daughter-in law, two top people in the U.S. military. And even Miri, in her attempts to protect her grandfather, may be entangled in the plot. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs Robert becomes more deeply involved in conspiracy, he is shocked to learn of a radical change planned for the UCSD Geisel Library; all the books there, and worldwide, would cease to physically exist. He and his fellow re-trainees feel compelled to join protests against the change. With forces around the world converging on San Diego, both the conspiracy and the protest climax in a spectacular moment as unique and satisfying as it is unexpected. This is science fiction at its very best, by a master storyteller at his peak.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Vernor Vinge\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Deepness in the Sky\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 1999 Hugo Award for Best Science Fiction Novel\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eA Deepness in the Sky\u003c\/i\u003e more than justifies the old tag 'eagerly anticipated.' It's a space opera dealing with the age-old themes of exploration, first contact, different cultures, exploitation and, inevitably, conflict. An intriguing and mind-stretching epic. Highly recommended.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eSFX\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Fire Upon the Deep\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 1992 Hugo Award for Best Novel\u003cbr\u003e\"When I was young and had to write my address in a school notebook, I would begin with my street and apartment number and then go on through city, county, state, country and continent in a litany of ever more grandiose place names that did not end until I reached 'Earth, Solar System, Milky Way Galaxy, The Universe.' In those days, it thrilled me that my small corner of the Bronx was just a one part of the vastness I could see in the sky at night. This is the feeling I got from reading \u003ci\u003eA Fire Upon the Deep\u003c\/i\u003e by Vernor Vinge.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Gerald Jonas, \u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarooned in Realtime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMarooned in Realtime \u003c\/i\u003eis a cracking good story that leaves the reader with plenty to think about. Vernor Vinge draws fine characters and writes a compelling plot. In the end, almost all the mysteries are solved--the only loose ends are those which will leave you pondering the future of Mankind and of the earth for weeks after you finish the book\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eBaltimore\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Sun\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104287920351,"sku":"9781250841506","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/9bffubLuul9781250841506.webp?v=1781104579"},{"product_id":"a-deepness-in-the-sky-paperback","title":"A Deepness in the Sky - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTor Essentials presents new editions of science fiction and fantasy titles of proven merit and lasting value, each volume introduced by an appropriate literary figure. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis new Tor Essentials edition of Vernor Vinge's \u003c\/i\u003eA Deepness In the Sky\u003ci\u003e includes an introduction by the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award-winning Jo Walton, author of \u003c\/i\u003eAmong Others.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe group that opens trade with the aliens will reap unimaginable riches. But first, both groups must wait at the aliens' very doorstep, for their strange star to relight and for the alien planet to reawaken, as it does every two hundred and fifteen years... \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmidst terrible treachery, the Qeng Ho must fight for their freedom and for the lives of the unsuspecting innocents on the planet below, while the aliens themselves play a role unsuspected by Qeng Ho and Emergents alike. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMore than just a great science fiction adventure, A Deepness In the Sky\u003ci\u003e is a universal drama of courage, self-discovery, and the redemptive power of love.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104791597279,"sku":"9781250905970","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/hQnq4HWPSw9781250905970.webp?v=1781111328"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/vernor-vinge.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}