Vernor Vinge
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"Ten years have passed on Tines World, where Ravna Bergnsdot and a number of human children ended up after a disaster that nearly obliterated humankind throughout the galaxy. Ravna and the pack animals for which the planet is named have survived a war, and Ravna has saved more than one hundred children who were in cold-sleep aboard the vessel that brought them. While there is peace among the Tines, there are those among them--and among the humans--who...
2) Rainbows End
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Hugo Award winner Vinge pens a sci-fi thriller set in San Diego, California, in the year 2025. As world-famous poet Robert Gu regains his faculties from Alzheimer's through a cure developed during the years of his near-fatal decline, he discovers that the world has changed--and so has his place in it.
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Drawing from the horizons of science, today's leading thinkers reveal the hidden threats nobody is talking about-and expose the false fears everyone else is distracted by. What should we be worried about? That is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ("The world's smartest website"-The Guardian), posed to the planet's most influential minds. He asked them to disclose something that, for scientific reasons, worries them-particularly scenarios...