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Amazon.com Review In this Hugo-winning 1991 SF novel, Vernor Vinge gives us a wild new cosmology, a galaxy-spanning ''Net of a Million Lies,'' some finely imagined aliens, and much nail-biting suspense. Faster-than-light travel remains impossible near Earth, deep in the galaxy's Slow Zone--but physical laws relax in the surrounding Beyond. Outside that again is the Transcend, full of unguessable, godlike ''Powers.'' When human meddling wakes an old Power, the Blight, this spreads like a wildfire mind virus that turns whole civilizations into its unthinking tools. And the half-mythical Countermeasure, if it exists, is lost with two human children on primitive Tines World. Serious complications follow. One paranoid alien alliance blames humanity for the Blight and launches a genocidal strike. Pham Nuwen, the man who knows about Countermeasure, escapes this ruin in the spacecraft Out of Band --heading for more violence and treachery, with 500 warships soon in hot pursuit. On his destination world, the fascinating Tines are intelligent only in combination: named ''individuals'' are small packs of the doglike aliens. Primitive doesn't mean stupid, and opposed Tine leaders wheedle the

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Author

Vinge, Vernor

Publisher

Macmillan USA

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9780312851828

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Science Fiction, Fiction

Rating

4.13 / 5 (38,809 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14