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Synopsis
By the same author as "Tatja Grimm's World", this story centres on the prince of the planet Giri, who is considered a halfwit because unlike everyone else, he cannot teleport. Befriending two shipwrecked Earth people, he finds he must move fast to protect them from his own people.
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"Vernor Vinge has long been one of the best writers of innovative, thought-provoking, character-as-well-as-science-driven SF."
--"Amazing Stories" on Vernor Vinge
"Vernor Vinge is one of our most notable writers."
--Analog on "True Names"
"Vinge . . . is among the very best of the current crop of hard SF writers, producing work that is not only fast-paced and intellectually challenging, but also stylishly written and centered on carefully drawn characters."
--Publishers Weekly on "A Deepness in the Sky"
Vernor Vinge has long been one of the best writers of innovative, thought-provoking, character-as-well-as-science-driven SF.
Vernor Vinge is one of our most notable writers.
Vinge . . . is among the very best of the current crop of hard SF writers, producing work that is not only fast-paced and intellectually challenging, but also stylishly written and centered on carefully drawn characters.
Vernor Vinge has long been one of the best writers of innovative, thought-provoking, character-as-well-as-science-driven SF. "Amazing Stories on Vernor Vinge"
Vernor Vinge is one of our most notable writers. "Analog on True Names"
Vinge . . . is among the very best of the current crop of hard SF writers, producing work that is not only fast-paced and intellectually challenging, but also stylishly written and centered on carefully drawn characters. "Publishers Weekly on A Deepness in the Sky""
"Vernor Vinge has long been one of the best writers of innovative, thought-provoking, character-as-well-as-science-driven SF." --Amazing Stories on Vernor Vinge
"Vernor Vinge is one of our most notable writers." --Analog on True Names
"Vinge . . . is among the very best of the current crop of hard SF writers, producing work that is not only fast-paced and intellectually challenging, but also stylishly written and centered on carefully drawn characters." --Publishers Weekly on A Deepness in the Sky
About the Author
Vernor Vinge has won five Hugo Awards, including one for each of his last three novels, A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), A Deepness in the Sky (1999), and Rainbow's End (2006). Known for his rigorous hard-science approach to his science fiction, he became an iconic figure among cybernetic scientists with the publication in 1981 of his novella "True Names," which is considered a seminal, visionary work of Internet fiction. His many books also include Marooned in Realtime and The Peace War.
Born in Waukesha, Wisconsin and raised in Central Michigan, Vinge is the son of geographers. Fascinated by science and particularly computers from an early age, he has a Ph.D. in computer science, and taught mathematics and computer science at San Diego State University for thirty years. He has gained a great deal of attention both here and abroad for his theory of the coming machine intelligence Singularity. Sought widely as a speaker to both business and scientific groups, he lives in San Diego, California.
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- PublisherDobson Books Ltd
- Publication date1978
- ISBN 10 0234720123
- ISBN 13 9780234720127
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages173
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Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. Signed on the title page by Vinge. The author's second book. "From the first Vinge combined a feeling for the movement and thrill of humanity's high-tech progress through the universe, with a sense that individual lives were bleak and often brutish. His second novel, THE WILTING (1976), repeats a situation basic to the first [GRIMM'S WORLD, 1969] - intruding humans on a colony planet are confronted by humanoids with special talents, here a variety of psi powers including teleportation - and confirmed the essential chill of his vision." - SFE (online). A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#154077). Seller Inventory # 154077
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