I was just thirty pages into Vernor Vinge’s A Fire Upon the Deep and I knew I’m gonna love this book. I picked this novella expecting a standard space opera, perhaps some faster-than-light travel and a galactic empire in decline. Instead, I found a book that didn’t just invite me into a story, it invited me into a completely different way of thinking about space, time, intergalactic internet, different levels of thought and consciousness, and yes AI of course.
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