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From Publishers WeeklySet in San Diego, Calif., this hard SF novel from Hugo-winner Vinge (A Deepness in the Sky) offers dazzling computer technology but lacks dramatic tension. Circa 2025, people use high-tech contact lenses to interface with computers in their clothes. "Silent messaging" is so automatic that it feels like telepathy. Robert Gu, a talented Chinese-American poet, has missed much of this revolution due to Alzheimer's, but now the wonders of modern medicine have rehabilitated his mind. Installed in remedial classes at the local high school, he tries to adjust to this brave new world, but soon finds himself enmeshed in a somewhat quixotic plot by elderly former University of California–San Diego faculty members to protest the destruction of the university library, now rendered superfluous by the ubiquitous online databanks. Unbeknownst to Robert, he's also a pawn in a dark international conspiracy to perfect a deadly biological weapon. The true nature of the superweapon is never made entirely clear, and too much of the book feels like a textbook introduction to Vinge's near-future world. (May) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All

Who reads Rainbows End: A Novel with One Foot in the Future?

Author

Vernor Vinge

Publisher

Tor Science Fiction

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812536362

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Science Fiction, Fiction

Rating

3.76 / 5 (12,525 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14