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The children of the sky
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Vernor Vinge |
"Ten years have passed on Tines World, where Ravna Bergnsdot and a number of human children ended up after a disaster that nearly obliterated humankind throughout the galaxy. Ravna and the pack anima… |
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Tatja Grimm's world
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Vernor Vinge |
Multiple Hugo Award winner Vernor Vinge's first full-length novel
As a mud-spattered youngster, Tatja quickly realized she was different from the stone-age primitives with whom she grew up. Her in… |
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True Names
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James Frenkel,Vernor Vinge |
"A marvellous mixture of hard-science SF and sword-and-sorcery imagery.... You wish the author were present so you could applaud." - *Analog* |
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Marooned in Realtime
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Vernor Vinge |
From the back cover:
"In *The Peace War* Vernor Vinge introduced the technology of bobbles, creating spheres where time stands still while minutes, years, or eons pass by outside. Originally used… |
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The Witling
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Vernor Vinge |
This second novel by multiple award-winner Vernor Vinge, from 1976, is a fast-paced adventure where galactic policies collide and different cultures clash as two scientists and their faith in technol… |
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Great Science Fiction Stories by the World's Greatest Scientists
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Jesse F. Bone,Mario Pei,Chad Oliver,Martin H. Greenberg,Fred Hoyle,Larry Eisenberg,Paul J. Nahin,Charles Sheffield,Arthur C. Clarke,Various,James Tiptree, Jr.,Vernor Vinge,Charles Waugh,James McConnell,Suzette Haden Elgin,Gregory Benford,Isaac Asimov,David Brin,Philip Latham,G. Harry Stine,Robert L. Forward,Kurd Laßwitz,Morton Klass,J. R. Pierce |
White Creatures - short story by Gregory Benford
The Singing Diamond - short story by Robert L. Forward
Publish and Perish - short story by Paul J. Nahin
Skystalk - novelette by Charles Sheffield
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Threats and Other Promises
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Vernor Vinge |
From the back cover:
Threats and Promises: HOW DO YOU TELL THE DIFFERENCE?
Take for example the "promises" inherent in computers: super-human intelligences to do our every bidding and make our… |
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