[TABLE="class: tborder, width: 100%, align: center"] [TD="class: thead, bgcolor: #3A758E"] 27-12-2008, 09:06 AM[/TD] [TD="class: thead, bgcolor: #3A758E, align: right"] #Please login or register to view links[/TD] [TD="class: alt2, width: 175, bgcolor: #F4F2ED"]Please login or register to view links Bác học Please login or register to view links Tham gia ngày: Dec 2006 Nơi Cư Ngụ: Hanoi, Vietnam Bài gởi: 1,109 Xin cảm ơn: 667 Được cảm ơn 25,427 lần trong 1,010 bài Please login or register to view links Please login or register to view links Please login or register to view links Please login or register to view links Please login or register to view links [/TD] [TD="class: alt1, bgcolor: #F8F7F4"] Vernor Vinge [HR][/HR]Vernor Vinge (Vernor Steffen Vinge) Please login or register to view links (Please login or register to view links - ) Vernor Vinge's two most important books are the two large screen space operas he wrote in the 1990s--A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky; the second is a loose prequel to the former, so that we know all the way through of the eventual fate of the trickster protagonist. Both are dominated by big concepts--the idea that certain technologies are only possible on the fringes of the galaxy and that the further in you go, the harder it is to think at all, let alone construct artificial intelligences; Vinge's is not a friendly universe, though some of his aliens are as likable as it is possible to be when really strange and Other. A Fire across the Deep has its action--a resurgent AI blight threatens all life--commented on by a galaxy-wide e-conference, while A Deepness in the Sky's planet-bound arachnid aliens are in some ways more like modern humans than the Earth-descended humans spying on them from space. Of his earlier novels, Marooned in Realtime is an effective murder mystery in which the victim was abandoned to live and die alone on a deserted Earth while her companions jumped further and further forward within a stasis field. Series Across Real Time Queng Ho Novels Collections Non fiction Anthologies containing stories by Vernor Vinge Short stories Apartness (Please login or register to view links)Bookworm, Run! (Please login or register to view links)Long Shot (Please login or register to view links)True Names (Please login or register to view links)Please login or register to view links [SIZE=-1](nominee)[/SIZE] Please login or register to view links [SIZE=-1](nominee)[/SIZE]The Peace War (part 1 of 4) (Please login or register to view links)The Peace War (part 3 of 4) (Please login or register to view links)The Peace War (part 4 of 4) (Please login or register to view links)The Barbarian Princess (Please login or register to view links)Please login or register to view links [SIZE=-1](nominee)[/SIZE]The Blabber (Please login or register to view links)Awards Please login or register to view linksBest Novella nominee (Please login or register to view links) : True NamesPlease login or register to view linksBest Novella nominee (Please login or register to view links) : True NamesPlease login or register to view linksBest Novel winner (Please login or register to view links) : The Peace WarPlease login or register to view linksBest Novel nominee (Please login or register to view links) : The Peace WarPlease login or register to view linksBest Novellette nominee (Please login or register to view links) : The Barbarian PrincessPlease login or register to view linksBest Novel winner (Please login or register to view links) : Marooned in Real TimePlease login or register to view linksBest Novel nominee (Please login or register to view links) : Marooned in Real TimePlease login or register to view linksBest Novel nominee (Please login or register to view links) : A Fire upon the DeepPlease login or register to view linksBest Novel nominee (Please login or register to view links) : A Fire upon the DeepPlease login or register to view linksBest Novel winner (Please login or register to view links) : A Fire upon the DeepPlease login or register to view linksBest Novel nominee (Please login or register to view links) : A Deepness in the SkyPlease login or register to view linksBest Novel winner (Please login or register to view links) : A Deepness in the SkyPlease login or register to view linksBest Novel nominee (Please login or register to view links) : A Deepness in the SkyPlease login or register to view linksBest Novel winner (Please login or register to view links) : A Deepness in the SkyPlease login or register to view linksBest Novel nominee (Please login or register to view links) : A Deepness in the SkyPlease login or register to view linksBest Novel winner (Please login or register to view links) : A Deepness in the SkyPlease login or register to view linksBest Novel nominee (Please login or register to view links) : Rainbows EndPlease login or register to view linksBest Novel winner (Please login or register to view links) : Rainbows End __________________ Winter Comes.. 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Rainbows End [TABLE="class: tborder, width: 100%, align: center"] [TD="class: thead, bgcolor: #3A758E"] 27-12-2008, 09:07 AM[/TD] [TD="class: thead, bgcolor: #3A758E, align: right"] #Please login or register to view links[/TD] [TD="class: alt2, width: 175, bgcolor: #F4F2ED"]Please login or register to view links Bác học Please login or register to view links Tham gia ngày: Dec 2006 Nơi Cư Ngụ: Hanoi, Vietnam Bài gởi: 1,109 Xin cảm ơn: 667 Được cảm ơn 25,427 lần trong 1,010 bài Please login or register to view links Please login or register to view links Please login or register to view links Please login or register to view links Please login or register to view links [/TD] [TD="class: alt1, bgcolor: #F8F7F4"] Rainbows End [HR][/HR] Rainbows End (Please login or register to view links) A novel by Please login or register to view links Awards Please login or register to view links Please login or register to view links (nominee) Four time Hugo Award winner Vernor Vinge has taken readers to the depths of space and into the far future in his bestselling novels A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky. Now, he has written a science-fiction thriller set in a place and time as exciting and strange as any far-future world: San Diego, California, 2025. Robert Gu is a recovering Alzheimer's patient. The world that he remembers was much as we know it today. Now, as he regains his faculties through a cure developed during the years of his near-fatal decline, he discovers that the world has changed and so has his place in it. He was a world-renowned poet. Now he is seventy-five years old, though by a medical miracle he looks much younger, and he's starting over, for the first time unsure of his poetic gifts . Living with his son's family, he has no choice but to learn how to cope with a new information age in which the virtual and the real are a seamless continuum, layers of reality built on digital views seen by a single person or millions, depending on your choice. But the consensus reality of the digital world is available only if, like his thirteen-year-old granddaughter Miri, you know how to wear your wireless access—through nodes designed into smart clothes—and to see the digital context—through smartcontact lenses. With knowledge comes risk. When Robert begins to re-train at Fairmont High, learning with other older people what is second nature to Miri and other teens at school, he unwittingly becomes part of a wide-ranging conspiracy to use technology as a tool for world domination. In a world where every computer chip has Homeland Security built-in, this conspiracy is something that baffles even the most sophisticated security analysts, including Robert's son and daughter-in law, two top people in the U.S. military. And even Miri, in her attempts to protect her grandfather, may be entangled in the plot. As Robert becomes more deeply involved in conspiracy, he is shocked to learn of a radical change planned for the UCSD Geisel Library; all the books there, and worldwide, would cease to physically exist. He and his fellow re-trainees feel compelled to join protests against the change. With forces around the world converging on San Diego, both the conspiracy and the protest climax in a spectacular moment as unique and satisfying as it is unexpected. This is science fiction at its very best, by a master storyteller at his peak. File Kèm Theo Please login or register to view links (298.7 KB, 148 lần tải) __________________ Winter Comes... [/TD] [/TABLE] File đính kèm: View attachment Rainbows End - Vernor Vinge.zip
