A fire upon the deep

Vernor Vinge

Original title: A Fire upon the Deep

first published 1992 SFBC, 2007 534 pages

Zones of thought series

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 a...

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Editions we hold

A Fire Upon The Deep paperback · 2020 · Tor Books · 448 pages · 9781250237750
A Fire Upon the Deep (S.F. Masterworks) edition · 2016 · GOLLANCZ · 9781473211957
Fire upon the Deep edition · 2013 · Orion Publishing Group, Limited · 9780575128811
A fire upon the deep edition · 2011 · Tor · 430 pages · 9780765329820
Un feu sur l'abîme - nouvelle édition paperback · 2011 · ROBERT LAFFONT · 696 pages · 9782221125779
Fire upon the Deep edition · 2010 · Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom · 9781429981989
A Fire Upon the Deep (SFBC 50th Anniversary Collection) edition · 2007 · SFBC · 534 pages · 9780739490914
A Fire Upon The Deep Special Edition Ebook hardcover · 2002 · St. Martin's Press · 9780312703691
Fire upon the Deep edition · 2000 · Tandem Library · 613 pages · 9780613278256
A fire upon the deep paperback · 1999 · Tor · 613 pages
Fire upon the Deep paperback · 1999 · Demco Media · 9780606159814
Un feu sur l'abîme paperback · 1998 · LGF · 800 pages · 9782253072089

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