{"id":3449,"date":"2026-11-08T19:29:47","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T03:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=3449"},"modified":"2026-11-08T19:29:47","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T03:29:47","slug":"review-a-deepness-in-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=3449","title":{"rendered":"Review: A Deepness in the Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the what the Los Angeles Public Library tells me is the second book in the series started with <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=3436\">A Fire upon the Deep<\/a><\/em>, but it&#8217;s a prequel with little obvious connection to <em>Fire<\/em>.  Vernor Vinge wrote both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are ties to <em>Fire<\/em>&#8216;s setting.  This takes place in the same basic human history established that book, and there are places and characters referenced in that book that appear here.  But if you show up fresh, it will all be good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is a very well done space opera, if anything, to a fault.  I think <em>Fire<\/em> has more to think about and play with in it.  Where <em>Fire<\/em> introduced a new cosmology and a threat that was intimately tied to that, <em>Deepness<\/em> puts us back in conventional physics with more direct extrapolations of technology.  Any fan of <em>Ringworld<\/em> will be right at home here.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is absolutely a space opera.  The good guys are the tenors and the bad guys are the basses. There is enough nuance to make the characters worth rooting for, but this is an adventure story.  I could get all English-teacher-y on this and dredge up some complaints about it, but that&#8217;s not the book Vinge obviously wrote.  It&#8217;s a lot of fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I also can&#8217;t resist pointing out that according to this, it&#8217;s strongly implied that thousands of years from today human software still reckons time from the Unix epoch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Strongly recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the what the Los Angeles Public Library tells me is the second book in the series started with A Fire upon the Deep, but it&#8217;s a prequel with little obvious connection to Fire. Vernor Vinge wrote both. There are ties to Fire&#8216;s setting. This takes place in the same basic human history established [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3450,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3449\/revisions\/3450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}