Re:A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge (1992)
by 2ion on Monday October 04, 2021 @05:01AM
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Besides the SF content, A Deepness in the Sky is also one of the very very few books that have completely disgusted me about a fictional character, namely in this book, what happened to Qiwi and Kira Pen Lisolet. I had to stop reading a few times. For the writing to steer impressions this much alone this book is 11/10.
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Re:A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge (1992)
by garmaine on Monday October 04, 2021 @05:29AM
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That aspect of it destroyed the rereadability of the book for me. I tried reading it again recently because I loved the part of the plot that dealt with the spiders, but I ended up skipping over the chapters with the emergents because I knew where thing were going and didn't want to re-experience it.
Still, that's credit to the author that he was able to write something powerful enough to evoke such a response.