On and off, I've tended to read quite a bit. So, I thought I'd put up some reviews of books as I read them. In time, I may go back and add reviews of some of the books I read in the past. Not massively exciting, but I suppose it may be of interest to someone, somewhere (perhaps).
A Fire Upon The Deep - Vernor Vinge
Ok, so it's space opera. I'm not a great fan of great big flying-about-in-rockets-fighting-the-aliens novels. However, Vernon Vinge is a computer science professor, and it actually shows through in such ways to make this a really good novel. From a universe where computational limitations are a function of space through to intelligent networked wolves, it's all very funky and compsci. And it holds together rather well. I'd read True Names before, which is supposed to be a proto-cyberpunk classic, and I'd enjoyed that, so really I suppose I should have tried his other books earlier.
Permalink. Posted 11:21, Tue, 05 Oct 2004.
There is also a complete index of the books.
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