{"id":554,"date":"2006-08-10T12:28:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-10T12:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=554"},"modified":"2025-04-24T17:45:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T17:45:45","slug":"book-log-a-deepness-in-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=554","title":{"rendered":"Book Log &#8211; A Deepness in the Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>A Deepness in the Sky<\/i> by Vernor Vinge (Zones of Thought series)<\/p>\n<p>My fourth Vernor Vinge novel (on loan from <lj user=galbinus_caeli>), and a good read.<\/p>\n<p>A mindrot disease, a strange star cluster, a race of intelligent spiders, interstellar traders, dustmote computers&#8230;  good stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Somewhat of a jillion-year prequel to <i>A Fire Upon The Deep<\/i>.  One of the characters in <i>Fire<\/i> was a god\/computer-reincarnatation of a character from <i>Deepness<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Good page-turner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge (Zones of Thought series) My fourth Vernor Vinge novel (on loan from ), and a good read. A mindrot disease, a strange star cluster, a race of intelligent spiders, interstellar traders, dustmote &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=554\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[481,513],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-log","category-books","tag-book-log-2006"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3467,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions\/3467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}