A Fire Upon The Deep<\/i> by Vernor Vinge<\/p>\n
A loan from This was a really good read for sci-fi fans. There’s lots of fun ideas, Some concepts:<\/p>\n -Lupine creatures that are an entity made up of 4-8 wolf-like things. -The Zones of Thought. The milky way is divided into several zones, from All good fun.<\/p>\n What I came to realize halfway through was that I had read a couple Vernor The Realtime<\/i> novels play with a concept called “Bobbles”, which are So, if you want to travel through time (forwards, at least), you Bobble Also good fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge A loan from . This was a really good read for sci-fi fans. There’s lots of fun ideas, and it’s pretty well written. Some concepts: -Lupine creatures that are an entity made … Continue reading
\nand it’s pretty well written.<\/p>\n
\nIndependantly, they’re scarce smarter than a standard wolf, but when close
\nenough, their minds work together (communicating through high-frequency
\nsound) to form a single personality.<\/p>\n
\nthe Unthinking Depths up to the Transcend. The closer to the galactic
\ncore you get, the poorer technology works. So, faster than light travel
\nis possible at the level called the Beyond, but not in the Slowness (where
\nEarth is supposed to be). In the High Beyond and above that (the
\nTranscend) races can “evolve” into Powers… god-like things, but the
\ngod-like things can’t exist in slower zones.<\/p>\n
\nVinge novels back in high school: Across Realtime<\/i> and Marooned
\nin Realtime<\/i>. Both of which I had loved, and recently had tried to
\nlocate again (I couldn’t remember the title or author). But seeing the
\ntitles in the Other Books By page brought it all back.<\/p>\n
\nbasically frozen-time spheres. You can create a Bobble around yourself,
\nand basically time stops for you until the Bobble dissolves. To people
\noutside the Bobble, it just looks like an impenetrable, indestructable
\nmirrored sphere.<\/p>\n
\nyourself for however many years, and whammo, you’re in the Future.<\/p>\n