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Zones of Thought: A Fire Upon the Deep / A Deepness in the Sky
Zones of Thought A Fire Upon the Deep / A Deepness in the Sky Author:Vernor Vinge The Hugo Award winning A FIRE UPON THE DEEP and its epic companion novel A DEEPNESS IN THE SKY, set in the same universe but 20,000 years earlier, were benchmarks for SF in the last decade of the 20th century. — A Fire Upon The Deep -- Fleeing a galactic threat, Ravna crash lands on a strange world with a ship hold full... more » of cryogenically frozen children, the only survivors. They are taken captive by the Tines, an alien race with a harsh medieval culture, and used as pawns in a ruthless power struggle.
A Deepness in the Sky -- Thirty-thousand years before A Fire Upon the Deep, two human groups, the Qeng Ho, a culture of free traders, and the Emergents, a ruthless society based on the technological enslavement of minds, stand on the verge of first contact with an alien race.« less