He passed on March 20. One of the greatest “hard” science fiction writers, author of True Names, A Fire Upon The Deep, and other cyberspace classics. Link is to his death notice in the old school fanzine File 770. Moment of silence please. RIP.

  • ElderWendigo@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    If you enjoyed A Fire Upon the Deep, you should definitely check out the other 2 books. The Children of the Sky is a straightforward sequel to A Fire Upon the Deep, more fun with the pack intelligences of the Tines. I really liked the idea of a pack intelligence surviving longer than an individual member in those books. A Deepness in the Sky has a hibernating technological spider civilization and human savants exploited and enslaved as basically hyper focused biological automatons. Also there are inflatable space ships. Working my memory to type this, I realize that I kinda want to read them again.

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      7 months ago

      I’d have to re-read the first one again. I think I read it in high school and I graduated high school in 1995.