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Robert Gu is a world-renowned poet and recovering Alzheimer's patient. The world that he remembers was much as we know it today. Now, as he regains his faculties through a new cure, he discovers that the world has changed. He is seventy-five years old, though by a medical miracle he looks much younger, and he’s starting over, for the first time unsure of his poetic gifts. Living with his son’s family, he has no choice but to learn how to cope with a new information age in which the virtual and the real are a seamless continuum. But the consensus reality of the digital world is available only if, like his thirteen-year-old granddaughter Miri, you know how to wear your wireless access and to see the digital context—through smart contact lenses. With knowledge comes risk. When Robert begins to re-train at Fairmont High he unwittingly becomes part of a wide-ranging conspiracy to use technology as a tool for world domination. This conspiracy is something that baffles even the most sophisticated security analysts, including Robert’s son and daughter-in law, two top people in the U.S. military. And even Miri, in her attempts to protect her grandfather, may be entangled in the plot . . . ‘In the grand tradition of William Gibson and Neal Stephenson, Vernor Vinge just turned the future upside-down in Rainbow's End’ Charles Stross

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" "A Deepness in the Sky" more than justifies the old tag 'eagerly anticipated.' It's a space opera dealing with the age-old themes of exploration, first contact, different cultures, exploitation and, inevitably, conflict. An intriguing and mind-stretching epic. Highly recommended." --"SFX" " When I was young and had to write my address in a school notebook, I would begin with my street and apartment number and then go on through city, county, state, country and continent in a litany of ever more grandiose place names that did not end until I reached ' Earth, Solar System, Milky Way Galaxy, The Universe.' In those days, it thrilled me that my small corner of the Bronx was just a one part of the vastness I could see in the sky at night. This is the feeling I got from reading "A Fire Upon the Deep" by Vernor Vinge." --Gerald Jonas, "New York"" Times Book Review" " "Marooned in Realtime "is a cracking good story that leaves the reader with plenty to think about. Vernor Vinge draws fine characters and writes a compelling plot. In the end, almost all the mysteries are solved-- the only loose ends are those which will leave you pondering the future of Mankind and of the earth for weeks after you finish the book" --"The ""Baltimore"" Sun" ""A Deepness in the Sky" more than justifies the old tag 'eagerly anticipated.' It's a space opera dealing with the age-old themes of exploration, first contact, different cultures, exploitation and, inevitably, conflict. An intriguing and mind-stretching epic. Highly recommended." --"SFX" "When I was young and had to write my address in a school notebook, I would begin with my street and apartment number and then go on through city, county, state, country and continent in a litany of ever more grandiose place names that did not end until I reached 'Earth, Solar System, Milky Way Galaxy, The Universe.' In those days, it thrilled me that my small corner of the Bronx was just a one part of the vastness I could see in the sky at night. This is the feeling I got from reading "A Fire Upon the Deep" by Vernor Vinge." --Gerald Jonas, "New York"" Times Book Review" ""Marooned in Realtime "is a cracking good story that leaves the reader with plenty to think about. Vernor Vinge draws fine characters and writes a compelling plot. In the end, almost all the mysteries are solved--the only loose ends are those which will leave you pondering the future of Mankind and of the earth for weeks after you finish the book" --"The ""Baltimore"" Sun"
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Vernor Vinge is the author of such acclaimed novels as True Names , The Peace War, Marooned in Realtime, A Fire Upon the Deep, A Deepness in the Sky, and has won four Hugo Awards. A mathematician and computer scientist, he lives in San Diego, California.

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ISBN 10: 0330451944 ISBN 13: 9780330451949
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Descripción Paperback: 7" x 4½". Condición: Very Good: Light signs of wear. Cover Art: Stephan Martiniere Ilustrador. 2007 Edition. © 2006:- A stand-alone novel by Vernor Vinge. 1st printing of 2007 edition:- Synopsis: The mysterious stranger and Mr Rabbit. World famous poet Robert Gu missed twenty years of progress while he nearly died from Alzheimer's. Now, when he awakens in San Diego in the year 2025, with his mind and health restored, reality's a shock. Books are just about gone. Computers are old news, replaced by 'smart' contact lenses that connect him to the Internet via his clothes and wireless nodes just about everywhere. Buildings look low-rent - unless your wearing. Then they look like whatever you want. Even he is different. He's seventy-five, but his treatment has made him look almost like a teenager. And that's just the tip of the iceberg in the new Digital Age. As Gu tries to catch up with his future, a mysterious stranger draws him and other innocents into a conspiracy that could have disastrous consequences. Before he knows it, he's in so deep that even his high-ranking military son and daughter-in-law are clueless. His only hope - the world's only hope - is that his thirteen-year-old- granddaughter Miri and her secret friend, Mr Rabbit, might be able to keep the worst from happening:- Review(s): "In the grand tradition of William Gibson and Neal Stephenson, Vernor Vinge just turned the future upside-down in 'Rainbows End' a deceptively charming return to the high school novel of yore, replete with bullying, family troubles. And grand terrorism" - Charles Stross, author of Accelerando / "A feverishly entertaining next-gen tech thriller" - SFreviews_com:- (original cost £6.99). Nº de ref. del artículo: 17.006.00017

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