New Releases by Vernor Vinge

Erstkontakt mit Folgen Seit längerer Zeit wird vom besiedelten Teil der Galaxis aus ein rätselhafter Stern beobachtet: Nicht nur, dass er auf einer engen Bahn um den Mittelpunkt der Milchstraße läuft und hoch in den galaktischen Halo aufsteigt, nach jeweils 215 Jahren Dunkelperiode strahlt er auch plötzlich für 35 Jahre hell auf, um sich dann wieder zu verdunkeln. Als man feststellt, dass der einzige Planet, der ihn umkreist, von intelligenten Wesen bewohnt ist, rüsten die beiden vorherrschenden Mächte der Galaxis Expeditionen aus: auf der einen Seite die Dschöng Ho, eine friedliche Händlerzivilisation, auf der anderen Seite die Aufsteiger, hochgerüstete Cyborgs. Sie überrumpeln die Händler, töten etliche von ihnen und versklaven den Rest. Und genauso gedenken sie, mit der Bevölkerung des Planeten zu verfahren, um ihr wissenschaftliches Know-how zu erbeuten. Sie gehen im Orbit in Lauerstellung und warten ab, bis die Sonne erneut in die Lichtphase tritt und die Bewohner aus ihrem Kälteschlaf erwachen. Aber sie ahnen nicht, dass auf dem Planeten auch jemand lebt, der von ihrer Anwesenheit weiß ...

Ein jahrtausendealter Mord Fünfzig Millionen Jahre in der Zukunft: Die blasenartigen Sphären, in denen die Menschen seit dem 22. Jahrhundert alle „unliebsamen Elemente“ eingesperrt haben, platzen nach und nach und entlassen ihre Bewohner wieder in die Normalzeit. Doch das, was sie außerhalb der Sphären erwartet, ist ein herber Schock: die Menschen auf der Erde sind verschwunden! Waren es Aliens? Oder haben sie die Menschen in einem gewaltigen Krieg selbst vernichtet? Kam es zu einer Singularität, die irgendwie von den Blasen verursacht worden ist? Will Brierson war Polizist, der von einem Verbrecher in einer dieser Blasen eingesperrt wurde. Jetzt wird er von den letzten Menschen beauftragt, einen Jahrtausende alten Mordfall zu lösen: eine Frau namens Marta Korolev wurde getötet, etwa zu der Zeit, als die Menschen verschwunden sind. Ihr Tagebuch könnte nicht nur Aufschluss über ihren Mörder geben, sondern auch darüber, was mit der Erde passiert ist ...

This discounted ebundle of The Zones of Thought Series includes: A Fire Upon the Deep, The Children of the Sky, A Deepness in the Sky “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. A Fire Upon The Deep — Fleeing a galactic threat, Ravna crash lands on a strange world with a ship hold full of cryogenically frozen children, the only survivors. They are taken captive by the Tines, an alien race with a harsh medieval culture, and used as pawns in a ruthless power struggle. The Children of the Sky — Ten years have passed on Tines World, and Ravna and the children have survived a war. 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. A Deepness in the Sky — Thirty-thousand years before A Fire Upon the Deep, two human groups, the Qeng Ho, a culture of free traders, and the Emergents, a ruthless society based on the technological enslavement of minds, stand on the verge of first contact with an alien race. Other Books by Vernor Vinge 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 At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Novela corta ganadora del premio Hugo 2002En un futuro cercano, donde los enlaces inal�mbricos mentales y los ordenadores integrados en la vestimenta son comunes, y desdibujan la l�nea entre la realidad aumentada y la desnuda, llega el momento de los ex�menes finales en Fairmont High, la escuela secundaria de San Diego. Juan Orozco y sus compa�eros tienen una idea asombrosa para su proyecto final sin conexi�n a la red. Pero, �puede un grupo de j�venes de 13 a�os descubrir el secreto de lo que est� pasando realmente en el Parque Torrey Pines?Vernor Vinge es uno de los autores de ciencia ficci�n m�s galardonado de los �ltimos a�os, con varias novelas ganadoras del premio Hugo (Un fuego en el abismo; Un abismo en el cielo; o la Guerra de la Paz).Esta novela corta est� ambientada y con los mismos personajes que su �ltima novela ganadora del Hugo, "Al final del Arco�ris" (2007)

Novela Corta ganadora del Premio Hugo 2004 y el Premio Locus 2004 Dixie Mae comienza su primer d�a de trabajo en la secci�n de Atenci�n al Cliente de la multinacional LotsaTech, dedicada a dise�ar grandes aplicaciones inform�ticas para empresas y particulares. Su trabajo consiste en contestar correos electr�nicos con dudas sobre los programas dise�ados por LotsaTech, pero un d�a recibe uno particularmente obsceno con datos que solo ella deber�a conocer. Intrigada y alarmada, Dixie junta a otros empleados en su camino por identificar al remitente, que en teor�a trabaja en el mismo complejo de la empresa. Entre las pesquisas, Dixie y sus compa�eros de trabajo descubrir�n los alarmantes secretos de LotsaTech y pondr�n en peligro sus vidas.

Paul Hoehler è un brillante ricercatore e ha scoperto qualcosa che può cambiare il mondo: campi di forza sferici che impediscono l'ingresso o l'uscita della materia imprigionata al loro interno. I guai iniziano quando i Laboratori Elettronici Livermore approfittano della nuova scoperta per impadronirsi di centri governativi, basi militari e agenzie scientifiche, racchiudendole nelle "bolle di energia" a cui non potranno più sottrarsi. Poco dopo nasce l'Autorità di Pace con lo scopo di dare alla Terra una nuova stabilità: ma perché i nuovi pacificatori proibiscono ogni genere di ricerca scientifica, mantengono un esercito bene armato e considerano Paul Hoehler il loro peggior nemico?

Non, vraiment, la vie de Dixie Mae n’a pas toujours été rose... Mais grâce à LotsaTech, et au boulot qu’elle vient de décrocher au service clients de ce géant high-tech, les choses vont changer. Telle était du moins sa conviction jusqu’à ce que lui parvienne l’email d’un mystérieux expéditeur, message qui contient quantité de détails intimes liés à son enfance et connus...

Der weltberühmte Poet Robert Gu wäre beinahe an Alzheimer gestorben und hat dabei zwanzig Jahre Fortschritt verpasst. Jetzt kommt er im Jahr 2025 mit wiederhergestelltem Verstand und Körper in San Diego zu sich und ist von der Realität schockiert. Bücher sind so gut wie ausgestorben. Computer wurden mittlerweile durch "intelligente" Kontaktlinsen ersetzt, die ihn beinahe an jedem Ort mit dem Internet verbinden können. Selbst er hat sich verändert. Er ist fünfundsiebzig, sieht jedoch fast wie ein Teenager aus. Und das ist nur die Spitze des Eisbergs des neuen Digitalen Zeitalters. Während Gu versucht, mit seiner Zukunft zurechtzukommen, zerrt ein Fremder ihn und andere Unschuldige in eine Verschwörung, die katastrophale Konsequenzen nach sich ziehen könnte ...

Aux confins de la Galaxie, une expédition a réveillé par imprudence une Perversion - une Intelligence informatique aux pouvoirs quasidivins. Sa planète d'origine, Straumli, a été détruite ainsi qu'une bonne partie des civilisations avoisinantes. Un unique navire est parvenu à fuir dans la nuit épouvantable. A son bord, deux enfants : Johanna et Jefri. Cherchant un monde où se poser, il a atteint une planète peuplée par une espèce intelligente singulière : les Dards, sortes de chiens qui, capables de communiquer par ultrasons, forment des meutes intelligentes et utilisent leurs museaux et mâchoires pour saisir en groupe des objets. Un second vaisseau a rejoint Johanna et Jefri : Ravna, institutrice, et une cargaison d'autres enfants rescapés straumliens, placés précipitamment dans des caissons d'hibernation. Ce sont ces Enfants du ciel de ce deuxième volume. Dix ou quinze ans ont passé. Les enfants ont été réveillés et constituent, avec les deux premiers qui ont grandi ainsi que Ravna, la population humaine. Ils vivent désormais en bonne intelligence avec le camp des Dards, technologiquement progressiste et d'esprit plutôt démocratique. Mais il existe sur la même planète des populations de Dards dissidents qui, tout en cherchant à s'emparer de la technologie avancée des Straumliens, ont une tout autre conception du pouvoir. Leurs chefs veulent non seulement voler les artefacts humains, mais aussi manipuler les adolescents pour qu'ils se révoltent contre Ravna. Et certains d'entre eux se trouvent engagés dans un incroyable voyage à la surface de ce monde, tandis qu'une flotte de destruction envoyée par la Perversion file à la vitesse de la lumière vers la planète des Dards. Il reste quelques décennies avant qu'elle n'arrive... Les Enfants du ciel annonce un troisième volet, qui verra arriver la flotte de la Perversion et, on le souhaite, son échec et sa destruction.

The Children of the Sky continues the epic scifi adventure of Hugo award-winning A Fire Upon the Deep! “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. Ten years have passed on Tines World, and Ravna and the children have survived a war. 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. Tor books by Vernor Vinge 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 At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

"After the Battle on Starship Hill" is more than 12000 words of prologue from Vernor Vinge's forthcoming novel, The Children of the Sky. Taking place on Tines World, this mini e-book describes events of the years immediately following the conclusion of the predecessor novel, A Fire Upon the Deep. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Vinge's masterpieces together at last, in one epic volume The Hugo Award winning A FIRE UPON THE DEEP and its epic companion novel A DEEPNESS IN THE SKY, set in the same universe but 20,000 years earlier, were benchmarks for SF in the last decade of the 20th century. In FIRE 'Vinge presents a galaxy divided into Zones - regions where different physical constraints allow very different technological and mental possibilities. Earth remains in the "Slowness" zone, where nothing can travel faster than light and minds are fairly limited. The action of the book is in the "Beyond", where translight travel and other marvels exist, and humans are one of many intelligent species. One human colony has been experimenting to find a path to the "Transcend", where intelligence and power are so great as to seem godlike. Instead they release the Blight, an evil power, from a billion-year captivity.' Publisher's Weekly In DEEPNESS, 'the story has the same sense of epic vastness despite happening mostly in one isolated solar system. Here there's a world of intelligent spider creatures who traditionally hibernate through the "Deepest Darkness" of their strange variable sun's long "off" periods, when even the atmosphere freezes. Now, science offers them an alternative. Meanwhile, attracted by spider radio transmissions, two human starfleets come exploring - merchants hoping for customers and tyrants who want slaves. Their inevitable clash leaves both fleets crippled, with the power in the wrong hands, which leads to a long wait in space until the spiders develop exploitable technology. Over the years Vinge builds palpable tension through multiple storylines and characters.' Dave Langford

Robert Gu es un famoso poeta afectado de Alzheimer durante años y al que la medicina del futuro cercano logra recuperar y rejuvenecer. Así, debe enfrentarse a un mundo parecido pero insidiosamente distinto del que recordaba.

A Novel of the Day After Tomorrow

Tor Essentials presents new editions of science fiction and fantasy titles of proven merit and lasting value, each volume introduced by an appropriate literary figure. After thousands of years of searching, humans stand on the verge of first contact with an alien race. Two human groups: the Qeng Ho, a culture of free, innovative traders, and the Emergents, a ruthless society based on the technological enslavement of minds. The group that opens trade with the aliens will reap unimaginable riches. But first, both groups must wait at the aliens' very doorstep, for their strange star to relight and for the alien planet to reawaken, as it does every two hundred and fifteen years... Amidst terrible treachery, the Qeng Ho must fight for their freedom and for the lives of the unsuspecting innocents on the planet below, while the aliens themselves play a role unsuspected by Qeng Ho and Emergents alike. More than just a great science fiction adventure, A Deepness In the Sky is a universal drama of courage, self-discovery, and the redemptive power of love. This new Tor Essentials edition of Vernor Vinge's A Deepness In the Sky includes an introduction by the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award-winning Jo Walton, author of Among Others. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A classic science-fiction adventure by a Hugo Award bestselling author

Multiple Hugo Award winner Vernor Vinge takes readers on a fifty-million-year trip to a future where humanity's fate will be decided in a dangerous game of high-tech survival. In this taut thriller, a Hugo finalist for Best Novel, nobody knows why there are only three hundred humans left alive on the Earth fifty million years from now. Opinion is fiercely divided on whether to settle in and plant the seed of mankind anew, or to continue using high-energy stasis fields, or "bobbles," in venturing into the future. When somebody is murdered, it's obvious someone has a secret he or she is willing to kill to preserve.The murder intensifies the rift between the two factions, threatening the survival of the human race. It's up to 21st century detective Wil Brierson, the only cop left in the world, to find the culprit, a diabolical fiend whose lust for power could cause the utter extinction of man. Filled with excitement and adventure, Vinge's tense SF puzzler will satisfy readers with its sense of wonder and engaging characters, one of whom is a murderer with a unique modus operandi. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The novel that garnered Vinge his first "Best Novel" Hugo Finalist nomination, back in print after thirteen years. With a combination of hard-SF concepts, tight plotting, and appealing characters, Vinge tells a now-classic story of the Few triumphing over the Many. The Peace Authority, wielding a new state-of-the-art weapon, takes over the world, and claims to be "maintaining the peace" while really controlling the scattered survivors of the new world. The inventor of their weapon, which was never meant to be a weapon at all, leads a resistance of high-tech "tinkers" who fight to defeat the "Peace."

From his earliest stories in the mid-1960s, to his longer works of the 1970s and '80s, these pieces display Vinge's sense of wonder. Those who love his novels will find his short fiction even more impressive.

The story of the Spiders, inhabitants of a planet where the sun regularly stops shining for periods of 200 years, during which they are frozen in ice. The novel picks them up emerging from their most recent hibernation in a frenzy of activity and innovation to make up for lost time.

Un feu sur l'abîme, énorme à tous les sens du terme, renoue avec la grande tradition épique de la Science-Fiction, où l'extravagant est de rigueur et où l'impossible ne constitue qu'une difficulté passagère. Mais l'imagination effervescente de Vernor Vinge respecte toujours les lois de la logique et autant que possible celles de l'univers. Une expédition straumlienne, explorant une Archive dans la presque Transcendance, a déchaîné une Perversion sur la galaxie entière. Un unique navire est parvenu à fuir dans la nuit épouvantable. A travers l'espace, il fonce vers le centre de la galaxie, vers Les Lenteurs où l'on ne peut pas dépasser la vitesse de la lumière, où les systèmes informatiques les plus performants - même les si lentes intelligences biologiques - subissent une perte de leurs facultés. Il cherche un monde où se poser. Les deux seuls survivants de l'expédition détiennent sans le savoir la clé du salut de millions de civilisations, dont certaines sont bien plus anciennes que l'humanité : ce sont deux enfants, Johanna et Jefri, abandonnés à eux-mêmes sur un monde médiéval, dont les conflits et les cruautés ne le cèdent en rien à ceux de la galaxie. Et ceux qui voudraient les aider, et sauver du même coup la galaxie civilisée, se trouvent encore à des milliers d'années-lumière...

Encompassing time-travel, powerful mystery and the future history of humanity to its last handful of survivors, Across Realtime spans millions of years and is an utterly engrossing SF classic.

A Fire Upon the Deep is the big, breakout book that fulfills the promise of Vinge's career to date: a gripping tale of galactic war told on a cosmic scale. Thousands of years hence, many races inhabit 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 the threat, a family of scientists, including two children, are taken captive by the Tines, an alien race with a harsh medieval culture, and used as pawns in a ruthless power struggle. A rescue mission, not entirely composed of humans, must rescue the children-and a secret that may save the rest of interstellar civilization. A Fire Upon The Deep is the winner of the 1993 Hugo Award for Best Novel.

In a short novel and six never-before-collected stories, one of science fiction's finest authors takes science and humanity to the limit. For fans of Larry Niven, Carl Sagan, and others. From the author of Marooned in Realtime.