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Rainbows End: A Novel with One Foot in the Future by Vernor Vinge is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Rainbows End: A Novel with One Foot in the Future about?
<br> Four time Hugo Award winner Vernor Vinge has taken readers to the depths of space and into the far future in his bestselling novels <i>A Fire Upon the Deep</i> and <i>A Deepness in the Sky</i>. Now, he has written a science-fiction thriller set in a place and time as exciting and strange as any far-future world: San Diego, California, 2025. <p>Robert Gu is a recovering Alzheimer's patient. The world that he remembers was much as we know it today. Now, as he regains his faculties 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. He was a world-renowned poet. Now 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, layers of reality built on digital views seen by a single person or millions, depending on your choice. But the consensus reality of the digital world is available only if, like his thirteen-year-old granddaughter Miri, you know
Who reads Rainbows End: A Novel with One Foot in the Future?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Vernor Vinge
- Publisher
- Tor Science Fiction
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780812536362
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Science Fiction, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.76 / 5 (12,525 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13