A Fire Upon the Deep is a 1992 science fiction novel by American writer Vernor Vinge. It is a space opera involving superhuman intelligences, aliens,...
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earlier novel A Fire Upon the Deep (1992). The title is coined by one of the story's main characters in a debate, in a reference to the hibernating habits...
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Vernor Vinge (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
novels A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), A Deepness in the Sky (1999), and Rainbows End (2006), and novellas Fast Times at Fairmont High (2001) and The Cookie...
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The Children of the Sky is a science fiction novel by American writer Vernor Vinge. It is a sequel to A Fire Upon the Deep and shares the Zones of Thought...
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covering the software categories groupware and Customer Relationship Management Tine (race), an alien race in the novels A Fire Upon the Deep and The Children...
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Eras. Moreover, the chaotic orbits threaten to eventually destroy Trisolaris by tidal forces or by direct collision with a star. Upon reception of Ye's...
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involvement, made him a well-recognised participant; this is commemorated in Vernor Vinge's 1992 novel A Fire Upon the Deep. The novel featured an interstellar...
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roughly equally to come to decisions. The packs of Tines in Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep and The Children of the Sky are an example of such decentralized...
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is a fantasy novel written by the British author J. K. Rowling. It is the fourth novel in the Harry Potter series....
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Fahrenheit 451 (redirect from It was a pleasure to burn)
make The Fireman into a full novel. Bradbury finished the manuscript for Fahrenheit 451 in 1953, and the novel was published later that year. Upon its...
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contact, a Japanese general, of the existence of Operation Dandelion, a plan of Goebbels for a Nazi sneak attack upon the Japanese Home Islands, with the goal...
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novels by Jack Vance A fictional "Zone of Thought" in the novel A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge, and its prequel, A Deepness in the Sky Beyond (disambiguation)...
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weapon against the Confederacy capital city of Texarkana, which kills millions of people. A ten-day cease-fire is issued by the World Court. The Wanderer reappears...
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owned a small brass cannon, which he acquired prior to the 1960s. For nearly 30 years, the firing of the brass cannon, or "signal gun," was a 4th of...
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Destiny The Blight, a malevolent quasi-Power in the novel A Fire Upon the Deep Blight, a group of worlds devastated by a dangerous technology in the book...
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Harv and his gang. As a civil official with deep Confucian principles, his decision to let Nell keep the stolen primer is one of the pivotal plot elements...
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very high-level information, as described in the novel A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge Evocation (band), a Swedish metal band Evoke (disambiguation)...
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Ancient astronauts (redirect from Intelligent Life in the Universe (book))
Scarlet Dream, Galactic Derelict, World of Ptavvs, Toolmaker Koan, and A Fire Upon the Deep. Aliens may also appear as an elder race that created or shepherded...
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Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (redirect from Twilight of the Mind)
fiction", including Frank Herbert's The Jesus Incident and Hellstrom's Hive, A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge, and The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven...
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1992 in literature (category Years of the 20th century in literature)
Vidal – Live from Golgotha: The Gospel According to Gore Vidal Vernor Vinge – A Fire Upon the Deep Robert James Waller – The Bridges of Madison County Connie...
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Lord of Light (redirect from Lord of Fire)
god of the same name. Agni, the god of fire, is a fearsome character armed with a wand that emits the Universal Fire, a stream of plasma which destroys...
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Novel, and the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel in 2018. Reviews of the book upon its release were highly positive. It is the third volume in the Broken...
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Double Star (category Novels by Robert A. Heinlein)
one of the most prominent politicians in the Solar System (and one with whose views Smith deeply disagrees): John Joseph Bonforte. Bonforte is the leader...
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after The Children of the Sky. Tines is a member of the multi-part species introduced in A Fire Upon the Deep, the tines, and the Blabber is a missing...
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of the Great Fire of London) authored a book called "Fire and Brimstone in Hell", first published in 1670. In it he quotes from Psalm 11:6 "Upon the wicked...
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Connie Willis (redirect from Time is the Fire: The Best of Connie Willis)
students at the future University of Oxford, called the Time Travel series or the Oxford Time Travel Series. They are the short story "Fire Watch" (1982...
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was the largest anthology or e-Book of current fiction published under one cover. It also featured a hypertext version of A Fire Upon the Deep, the to-be-Hugo-winning...
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"Skin Deep" is the twelfth episode of the American fairy tale/drama television series Once Upon a Time. The series takes place in the fictional seaside...
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with the Communists. This made the fire pivotal in the establishment of Nazi Germany. The first report of the fire came shortly after 9:00 p.m., when a Berlin...
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