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Anticipates our future like nobody else. --Gregory Benford
Vinge is one of the visionary writers of SF today. --David Brin
Vinge is one of the visionary writers of SF today. --David Brin
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"A major SF author...you can see Vinge maturing from clever competence and slick storytelling to something rather special."
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I was a child in the 1950s, a little boy who could talk and write better than he could think, but who had a good imagination, and read everything he could by people much smarter than he. Read the first page
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After reading this collection one thing becomes completely obvious: the themes Vinge writes about in his later works - the technological singularity (A Fire upon the Deep), or the lack of it and the inevitable technological collapse (A Deepness in the sky), intelligence amplification and mind-machine interface (Fast time at fairmont high) - these are not new concepts for Vinge. He has been writing about them for nearly 40 years.
It is amazing how even his oldest stories has aged so little and is still very effective as near-future SF. Vinge seems to have a knack for prediction - Read "The accomplice" to see how he nailed dowwn computer generated movies decades before they became a reality.
Some stories have aged, though - the shadow of an all out nuclear war is evident in some. But still, for Vinge fans this is a book you just can't skip.
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In this book you can see the development of the ideas that are further extrapolated in "A fire upon the deep" and "A deepness in the sky", both major thought-provoking full-length books that are really worth reading. Starting with stories that Vinge wrote as a teenager, and with little explanations at the start and often afterwords, the collected stories are nicely complex and absorbing - difficult to put the book down at the end of an evening. If you haven't read Vinge before, this is a very good start and introduces ideas that, today, don't seem so far fetched as they were when they were written.
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This is an excellent collection of short stories by one of the smartest Sci-Fi writers of our time. Spanning quite a period of his writing. A nice range of subject matter too. I've read most of Vinges books, & this made a nice addition to them.
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