Re: Vernor Vinge (1944 - 2024)

On 22/03/24 16:49, Chris Buckley wrote:
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Both _A Fire Upon the Deep_ and _A Deepness in the Sky_ are in my list of
absolute top Favorites.

Same with me but book 3, The Children of The Sky, was just a 2 star OK.
The short stories that I read were mediocre or worse (Fast Times At...),
The Peace War series was good peaking with 4 star Marooned In Realtime
but the other 5 star book for me which hasn't been mentioned is Rainbows
End whose science may be dated already?
I have a copy but haven't yet read The Witling and probably won't read
Zones of Thought 4, After the Battle on Starship Hill.

  The novella _True Names_ is another Favorite, having

a large impact when I first read it (it was the first real introduction
of cyberspace.)  All three of these fell into a rare category for me: books
that upon finishing my first reading demanded an immediate re-read.
 
Chris