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The Children of the Sky

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Two years after the Battle on Starship Hill
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Chapter 4
Ten years after the Battle on Starship Hill
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Copyright © 2011 by Vernor Vinge
To Carol D. Ward and Joan D. Vinge
How do you get the attention of the richest businessperson on the world?
May contain spoilers
Down here, we have the edge.
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Extract (may contain spoilers)
Remasritlfeer had been working for the Great Tycoon for more than two years. This was a constant source of surprise to Remasritlfeer, who had never taken kindly to fools, even ones as rich as Tycoon. The two years had been one crackbrained mission after another, some more dangerous and exciting than the explorer in Remasritlfeer would have ever dreamed. And maybe that was why he continued to work for the madpack.

This latest piece of insanity might finally bring an end to their relationship. Exploring the Tropics! The assignment was more dangerous, more insane—literally insane—than anything Tycoon had demanded before. But truthfully, the first few days had been magnificent: Remasritlfeer had totally survived and in two ways he’d matched or exceeded the triumph of any explorer in the history of the world.

Unfortunately, that was four tendays ago. Tycoon just didn’t know when to give up. Glory had degenerated into deadly tedium, tenday after tenday of failures.

"There has to come an end to it, you know." The words expressed Remasritlfeer’s heartfelt opinion, but they were spoken by his passenger on this flight. This final trip, if there was any mercy in the world. Chitiratifor was a well-dressed sixsome who barely fit in the balloon’s passenger platform. The Sea Breeze’s gondola was a cramped place where every pound had to be accounted for. The insulation round the passenger platform was so thin that Chitiratifor’s anxiety was painfully loud. Remasritlfeer could see claws and jaws here and there through the partition. His passenger was gouging the frame of the gondola with all his strength. There were retching sounds, some of his members barfing into the muddy water below.

 

Added: 31-Jan-2015
Last Updated: 18-Dec-2019

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 11-Oct-2011
Tor Books
Kindle e-Book
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Date Issued:
11-Oct-2011
Format:
Kindle e-Book
Cover Price:
$7.99
Pages*:
446
Read:
Once
Internal ID:
1551
Publisher:
ISBN:
1-429-99336-7
ISBN-13:
978142999364
Country:
United States
Language:
English
From amazon.com description:

After nearly twenty years, Vernor Vinge has produced an enthralling sequel to his memorable bestselling novel A Fire Upon the Deep.

Ten years have passed on Tines World, where Ravna Bergnsdot and a number of human children ended up after a disaster that nearly obliterated humankind throughout the galaxy. Ravna and the pack animals for which the planet is named have survived a war, and Ravna has saved more than one hundred children who were in cold-sleep aboard the vessel that brought them.

While there is peace among the Tines, there are those among them--and among the humans--who seek power…and no matter the cost, these malcontents are determined to overturn the fledgling civilization that has taken root since the humans landed.
On a world of fascinating wonders and terrifying dangers, Vernor Vinge has created a powerful novel of adventure and discovery that will entrance the many readers of A Fire Upon the Deep. Filled with the inventiveness, excitement, and human drama that have become hallmarks of his work, this new novel is sure to become another great milestone in Vinge's already stellar career.

One of Library Journal's Best SF/Fantasy Books of 2011
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Notes and Comments:
Read this after finishing The Alloy of Law.

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Author(s)

Vernor Vinge  
Birth: 02 Oct 1944 Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA
Notes:
From the Kindle version of the novel A Deepness in the Sky:

VERNOR VINGE won the Hugo Award for his novel A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), and has been a finalist for the Hugo Award four times, for the novels The Peace War (1984) and Marooned in Realtime (1986), for the novella True Names (1981), and for a novelette. His best-known works are admired for their extraordinary combination of groundbreaking science fiction concepts and epic adventures of great emotional power. Sought widely by publications as disparate as Rolling Stone and Wired, he is in constant demand as a speaker to scientific forums in the field of cybernetics and especially the area of human and machine intelligence. He has had a number of short stories published in Analog and other science fiction magazines. He is a professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at San Diego State University and currently lives in San Diego.

Awards

2012Libertarian Futurist SocietyPrometheus Award Nominee
2012Locus MagazineBest SF Novel Nominee
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