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Cover of “A Fire Upon the Deep” by Vernor Vinge

A Fire Upon the Deep

Vernor Vinge · 1992

613 pages

In a galaxy where thought and technology work differently at its edges, a human expedition releases an ancient menace from a lost archive. Two children stranded on a medieval world and a crew racing to stop the Blight are drawn into the same crisis.

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Space Opera, First Contact, Quest, Forbidden Knowledge

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