Twelve kinds of taste
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Fiction, Hugo Award Winner, Life on other planets, Science fiction
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.
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Epic, richly built, plot-driven and relentless.
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On Open Library, 102 have read it and 185 want to.
“The coldsleep itself was dreamless.”
A retired San Diego State University Professor of Mathematics, computer scientist, and science fiction author.
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Taste Buds. Other media included when they land close.
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“Is this Vernor Vinge's best work?”
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“Is the world more interesting than the story?”
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“Is it too big for its own story?”
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