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October 11, 2011 10:14 am PDT
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Vernor Vinge's Children of the Sky: bootstrapping high-tech civilization from hive-mind Machiavellis
The Children of the Sky is the third novel in Vernor Vinge's Zones of Thought cycle of novels, three brick-sized, Hugo-award winning novels that are the near-perfect balance of science fiction's twin traditions of wild speculation and high-intensity storytelling. A summary of Children's plot: Imagine bootstrapping a fallen civilization into transcendance using nothing but a [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/NatEX9xqETU/vernor-vinges-childr.html
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