Book summarySet in the same region of space, but 30,000 years earlier than Vinge's Hugo Award-winning A FIRE UPON THE DEEP, this novel explores culture clash on a galactic scale. Two separate human fleets approach a remote planet with very different purposes--one looking to trade, the other to enslave. When conflict leaves both fleets crippled, they are forced to drift in space for years until the aliens that inhabit the planet develop technology capable of rescuing them. The aliens, though, have an agenda of their own. |
A DEEPNESS IN THE SKYby Vinge, VernorFirst Edition
Book description: Tor, 1999. Hardcover first edition, first printing. Not a remainder, book club or ex-library copy. Some very faint bumping-related jacket crinkling at bottom edge of spine panel, else fine (unread) copy in fine jacket. This copy is square, the pages are bright and the jacket is not price-clipped. The magnificient sequel (but prequel to the events in) the 1993 Hugo Co-winner and 1992 Nebula Nominated novel A Fire Upon the Deep. The second book in Vinge's Zones of Thought series. Both books are the best alien-contact novels since Ursula Le Guin's Left Hand of Darkness or Larry Niven's The Mote in God's Eye. Award History: 1999 Nebula Award Nominee (lost to Parable of the Talents by Butler); 2000 Prometheus Award Winner for Best Libertarian SF Novel; 1999 HOMer Award Nominee for Best Novel (lost to The Veiled Web by Asaro); 2000 Hugo Award Winner for Best Novel; 2000 Locus Poll Award Nominee (lost to Cryptonomicon by Stephenson); 2000 British Fantasy Award Nominee (lost to Indigo by Graham Joyce); 2000 John W. Campbell Memorial Award Winner; 2000 Arthur C. Clarke Award Nominee (lost to Distraction by Sterling). Magnificent jacket art by Bob Eggleton.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Eggleton, Bob.
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