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1.		A Fire Upon The Deep (Zones of Thought) from Tor Science Fiction Price: $7.99 Customer Review: This book is confusing at first but I think that this is because Verner has developed the more abstract concepts of the book well enough that when continued reading the ideas that initially cause confusion become clear or adapted to. On another note this book is a generally good sci-fi adventure... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


2.		Rainbows End from Tor Science Fiction Price: $7.99 Customer Review: This was an unusual novel for me. On the positive side, it was unquestionably Vinge's most prescient work to date. I felt my understanding of the near future, and even the present, was increased. He points out that groups of humans with very high "interaction rates" start to look like something... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


3.		A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought) from Tor Books Price: $7.99 Customer Review: Decent premise. But the length of this book was 350 pages too long. Do yourself a favor and skip every other page. At the end, I was simply hoping all the characters ended up in a black hole as the "anti matter" took hold. The author needs a decent editor in the worst way...	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


4.		Marooned in Realtime from Tor Books Price: $4.99 Customer Review: Marooned in Real Time is a kind of sequel to Vinge's The Peace War. It takes place in the same future history, and the basic technological conceit, the bobbler, is at the heart of the story. There is even some overlap in characters. Marooned in Real Time is not as good as The Peace War. Vinge pushes... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


5.		The Peace War from Tor Books Price: $4.99 Customer Review: While it is true this is not Vinge's best work, but it is still a very interesting read, has everything you would expected from a solid scifi: fancy technology and its impact on future society, characters you can related to, and an enemy who is not cardboard villains.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


6.		The Witling from Tor Books Price: $11.16 Customer Review: Even in the '70 s Vernor Vinge was there with his very interesting and well-presented ideas... As an other reviewer says, it is obvious that the story is written by a relative beginner in the field, but, wow, how many beginners would dream of being able to write a story like that! From... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


7.		Tatja Grimm's World from Tor Books Price: $10.17 Customer Review: Vinge tells the story of a girl that is born in an aboriginal culture that is very low tech. An opportunity arises for her to enter the society of a floating city and become more educated. She is hyper-intelligent, and ascends swiftly to a position of power and influence. A look at whether her... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


8.		Across Realtime from Gollancz Customer Review: This is the good stuff. This guy is to me most reminiscent of Clarke, and that is about the highest praise I can give a science fiction writer. I have no idea about the possibility of "realtime" or any of his other ideas, but like Clarke, he has enough of a math and science background to flesh them... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


9.		The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge from Orb Books Price: $13.22 Customer Review: The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge is an excellent, mostly thematic group of short stories by the author including his earliest. As a big fan, it's interesting to note the progression of his craft, his story-telling ability, over the years. The other surprise was how many of the stories... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


10.		The Skylark of Space (Bison Frontiers of Imagination) from Bison Books Price: $13.45 Customer Review: I discovered E. E. (Doc) Smith in the late 1950's when I was a teenager. I, finally, had qualified to get into the adult section of the library (legally) and was hunting down science fiction stories. About 2/3 down one aisle, very near the bottom shelf, I spotted "Skylark of Space". I opened to the... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


11.		True Names: And the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier from Tor Books Price: $10.17 Customer Review: Try to remember back to the days when computers were giant things located inside even larger buildings, when access to them was jealously guarded by a high priesthood of computer scientists, and the results you got from them, after many days of painstaking labor, was as likely to be absolute rubbish... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


12.		True Names...and Other Dangers from Baen Books Customer Review: I usually don't enjoy short stories, but I made an exception for this book because I had heard good things about True Names. Vinge does an amazing job of character/plot development in each of these short stories. The common theme of "singularity" is explored in each.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


13.	[no image]	Machines That Think: The Best Science Fiction Stories About Robots and Computers (1st Edition) from Henry Holt & Co Customer Review: I found this book in my school library in my freshman year of high school.I checked it out and got partway through,then had to return it.I was hooked,though,and finally found a used copy here on Amazon,which seems to be the only place you can get it now,since it's out of print.That said,it's worth... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


14.	[no image]	Across Realtime from Nelson Doubleday	Click here for more information


15.		A Fire Upon the Deep (SFBC 50th Anniversary Collection, 40) from SFBC	Click here for more information


16.		Nightflyers / True Names (Binary Star #5) from Dell Publishing Customer Review: Nightflyers is a collection of stories concerned, in the main, with science fiction style horror. The title story is the quest for an alien ship. The journey does not go well, as many people start to forget to stay alive. Overall, this is an extremely high quality collection, coming in at a... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


17.	[no image]	Fast Times at Fairmont High from Fictionwise Classic Price: $2.20 Customer Review: Drug assisted outside exam's rodent release. 4 out of 5	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


18.		*Analog Science Fiction Science Fact, May 1986: Part 1 of Marooned in Realtime* (Volume CVI, No. 5)** from Davis Publications	Click here for more information


19.	[no image]	The Peace War from Pocket Books	Click here for more information


20.	[no image]	Across Realtime from Baen Books	Click here for more information

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