On a world of fascinating wonders and terrifying dangers, Vernor Vinge has created a powerful novel of adventure and discovery that will entrance the many readers of "A Fire Upon the Deep". Filled with the inventiveness, excitement, and human drama, this new novel is sure to become another great milestone in Vinge's already stellar career. 448 pp. 75,000 print.

Reviews

Advance praise for "The Children of the Sky"

"Imagine bootstrapping a fallen civilization into transcendence using nothing but a collection of hive-mind Machiavellis, a crippled hyperadvanced spaceship, and a pack of surly, scheming orphaned adolescents. Oh, and then there's the vengeful god ramscooping itself to relativistic speeds a mere thirty light years away. Vinge's explosive imagination and deft storytelling make epics sail past like hummingbirds--you'll steal daytime moments to read more, and lie awake at night contemplating what you've read." --Cory Doctorow, bestselling and award-winning author of "Little Brother"

"Vernor Vinge's stories and novels have always surprised and entertained me, and "The Children of the Sky "carries on that grand tradition!" --Greg Bear, bestselling author of "Hull Zero Three"

"No one has ever crafted a more complex, fascinating, and strangely realistic alien race than Vernor Vinge's marvelous Tines." --David Brin," "bestselling author of "The Postman "and "Startide Rising"

Raves for "A Fire Upon the Deep "by Vernor Vinge

"This is big-scale science fiction at its best." --"The Denver Post"

"With uninterrupted pacing, suspense without contrivance, and deftly drawn aliens who can be pleasantly comical without becoming cute, Vinge offers heart-pounding, mind-expanding science fiction at its best." --"Publishers Weekly, " Starred Review

"There are not too many novels that leave this reader screaming violently for more. Vernor Vinge's has done so." --"Locus"

"When I was young and had to write my address in a school notebook, I would begin with my street and apartment number and then go on through city, county, state, country and continent in a litany of ever more grandiose place names that did not end until I reached 'Earth, Solar System, Milky Way Galaxy, The Universe.' In those days, it thrilled me that my small corner of the Bronx was just one part of the vastness I could see in the sky at night. This is the fe