A Hugo award-winning Novel! Vinge is one of the best visionary writers of SF today. -David Brin
Thousands of years in the future humanity is no longer alone in a universe where a mind's
potential is determined by its location in space from superintelligent entities in the
Transcend to the limited minds of the Unthinking Depths where only simple creatures and
technology can function. Nobody knows what strange force partitioned space into these regions
of thought but when the warring Straumli realm use an ancient Transcendent artifact as a
weapon they unwittingly unleash an awesome power that destroys thousands of worlds and
enslaves all natural and artificial intelligence. Fleeing this galactic threat Ravna crash
lands on a strange world with a ship-hold full of cryogenically frozen children the only
survivors from a destroyed space-lab. They are taken captive by the Tines an alien race with a
harsh medieval culture and used as pawns in a ruthless power struggle. Tor books by Vernor
Vinge Zones of Thought Series A Fire Upon The Deep A Deepness In The Sky The Children of The
Sky Realtime Bobble Series The Peace War Marooned in Realtime Other Novels The Witling Tatja
Grimm's World Rainbows End Collections Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge True Names
