New Releases by Vernor Vinge

Prix Hugo 1993 Dans une galaxie où l''évolution technologique et les lois qui la gouvernent dépendent de la place que vous y occupez, il est risqué de s''aventurer en dehors de votre zone. Lorsque la jeune et ambitieuse civilisation humaine libère accidentellement une ancienne intelligence artifificielle, celle-ci - la Perversion - menace l''Univers tout entier. Sans le savoir, deux adolescents rescapés du naufrage d''un vaisseau détiennent entre leurs mains le salut de millions d''espèces intelligentes. Mais ils échouent sur une planète primitive et ceux qui peuvent leur venir en aide se trouvent à des milliers d''annéeslumière. Une terrible course contre la montre s''engage alors...

"Mr Slippery is an illegal computer hacker - a Warlock - and an expert in a new virtual reality technology called the Other Plane. Arrested by US the government and forced to work for them, he finds himself pitted against a new and frightening international cybercriminal: the Mailman. The Mailman is building a network of Warlocks, promising them wealth and power, causing chaos around the globe - but noone has ever met him in person. As Mr Slippery and his sidekick Erythrina drain the world''s computational power to track down their formidable adversary, they begin to wonder if they are chasing a ghost. Is the Mailman a man at all? Is he even human?"--Provided by publisher.

Erstkontakt mit Folgen Seit längerer Zeit wird vom besiedelten Teil der Galaxis aus ein rätselhafter Stern beobachtet: Nicht nur, dass er auf einer engen Bahn um den Mittelpunkt der Milchstraße läuft und hoch in den galaktischen Halo aufsteigt, nach jeweils 215 Jahren Dunkelperiode strahlt er auch plötzlich für 35 Jahre hell auf, um sich dann wieder zu verdunkeln. Als man feststellt, dass der einzige Planet, der ihn umkreist, von intelligenten Wesen bewohnt ist, rüsten die beiden vorherrschenden Mächte der Galaxis Expeditionen aus: auf der einen Seite die Dschöng Ho, eine friedliche Händlerzivilisation, auf der anderen Seite die Aufsteiger, hochgerüstete Cyborgs. Sie überrumpeln die Händler, töten etliche von ihnen und versklaven den Rest. Und genauso gedenken sie, mit der Bevölkerung des Planeten zu verfahren, um ihr wissenschaftliches Know-how zu erbeuten. Sie gehen im Orbit in Lauerstellung und warten ab, bis die Sonne erneut in die Lichtphase tritt und die Bewohner aus ihrem Kälteschlaf erwachen. Aber sie ahnen nicht, dass auf dem Planeten auch jemand lebt, der von ihrer Anwesenheit weiß ...

Eine uralte Bedrohung Tausende Jahre in der Zukunft: In der Milchstraße gibt es verschiedene Zonen, in denen unterschiedliche Technologien möglich sind: Im Zentrum, der „Gedankenleeren Tiefe“, sind keine komplexen Geräte möglich, in den Randbereichen, dem „Jenseits“ hingegen schon. Noch weiter draußen liegt das „Transzens“, in dem Zivilisationen, Wesen oder Computerprogramme herrschen, die transzendiert sind. Die Menschen sind bis in das untere Transzens vorgedrungen und haben in einem alten Computerarchiv eine Virus-Waffe entdeckt, die sich jetzt im Netz ausbreitet und Technik und Lebensformen assimiliert – ungeachtet der mysteriösen technologischen Grenzen. Doch die Menschen haben möglicherweise auch ein Gegenmittel, und so stehen sie plötzlich im Zentrum des Interesses aller intelligenten Völker der Galaxis ...

Im Amerika des 22. Jahrhunderts wurden Wissenschaft und Technologie abgeschafft. Alles, was das religiös-fundamentalistische Regime stört, wurde in gewaltige, blasenartige Sphären verbannt, einschließlich unliebsamer Widerständler. Was keiner ahnt: In den Blasen wartet ein Geheimnis, und ein Krieg gegen das vermeintlich friedliche Regime scheint unausweichlich ...

Ein jahrtausendealter Mord Fünfzig Millionen Jahre in der Zukunft: Die blasenartigen Sphären, in denen die Menschen seit dem 22. Jahrhundert alle „unliebsamen Elemente“ eingesperrt haben, platzen nach und nach und entlassen ihre Bewohner wieder in die Normalzeit. Doch das, was sie außerhalb der Sphären erwartet, ist ein herber Schock: die Menschen auf der Erde sind verschwunden! Waren es Aliens? Oder haben sie die Menschen in einem gewaltigen Krieg selbst vernichtet? Kam es zu einer Singularität, die irgendwie von den Blasen verursacht worden ist? Will Brierson war Polizist, der von einem Verbrecher in einer dieser Blasen eingesperrt wurde. Jetzt wird er von den letzten Menschen beauftragt, einen Jahrtausende alten Mordfall zu lösen: eine Frau namens Marta Korolev wurde getötet, etwa zu der Zeit, als die Menschen verschwunden sind. Ihr Tagebuch könnte nicht nur Aufschluss über ihren Mörder geben, sondern auch darüber, was mit der Erde passiert ist ...

This discounted ebundle of The Zones of Thought Series includes: A Fire Upon the Deep, The Children of the Sky, A Deepness in the Sky “Vinge is one of the best visionary writers of SF today.” —David Brin Thousands of years in the future, humanity is no longer alone in a universe where a mind''s potential is determined by its location in space, from superintelligent entities in the Transcend, to the limited minds of the Unthinking Depths, where only simple creatures, and technology, can function. Nobody knows what strange force partitioned space into these "regions of thought," but when the warring Straumli realm use an ancient Transcendent artifact as a weapon, they unwittingly unleash an awesome power that destroys thousands of worlds and enslaves all natural and artificial intelligence. A Fire Upon The Deep — Fleeing a galactic threat, Ravna crash lands on a strange world with a ship hold full of cryogenically frozen children, the only survivors. They are taken captive by the Tines, an alien race with a harsh medieval culture, and used as pawns in a ruthless power struggle. The Children of the Sky — Ten years have passed on Tines World, and Ravna and the children have survived a war. While there is peace among the Tines, there are those among them—and among the humans—who seek power...and no matter the cost, these malcontents are determined to overturn the fledgling civilization that has taken root since the humans landed. A Deepness in the Sky — Thirty-thousand years before A Fire Upon the Deep, two human groups, the Qeng Ho, a culture of free traders, and the Emergents, a ruthless society based on the technological enslavement of minds, stand on the verge of first contact with an alien race. Other Books by Vernor Vinge Realtime/Bobble Series The Peace War Marooned in Realtime Other Novels The Witling Tatja Grimm''s World Rainbows End Collections Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge True Names At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Novela corta ganadora del premio Hugo 2002En un futuro cercano, donde los enlaces inal�mbricos mentales y los ordenadores integrados en la vestimenta son comunes, y desdibujan la l�nea entre la realidad aumentada y la desnuda, llega el momento de los ex�menes finales en Fairmont High, la escuela secundaria de San Diego. Juan Orozco y sus compa�eros tienen una idea asombrosa para su proyecto final sin conexi�n a la red. Pero, �puede un grupo de j�venes de 13 a�os descubrir el secreto de lo que est� pasando realmente en el Parque Torrey Pines?Vernor Vinge es uno de los autores de ciencia ficci�n m�s galardonado de los �ltimos a�os, con varias novelas ganadoras del premio Hugo (Un fuego en el abismo; Un abismo en el cielo; o la Guerra de la Paz).Esta novela corta est� ambientada y con los mismos personajes que su �ltima novela ganadora del Hugo, "Al final del Arco�ris" (2007)

In un futuro lontano cinquanta milioni di anni la civiltà umana non esiste più, distrutta nel ventitreesimo secolo da un oscuro fenomeno noto come Estinzione. A organizzare una parvenza di ricostruzione badano i tecnalti, tra i pochi superstiti dell''ultima generazione vissuta sulla Terra: la loro scienza avanzata potrebbe essere veramente l''ultima speranza per il genere umano. Un gruppo di avventurosi e involontari naufraghi del tempo è sbarcato su questo mondo in agonia a bordo di sfere di energia indistruttibili, le "bolle" di cui si parla anche nella Guerra della pace ("Urania Collezione" n. 158). Purtroppo, poco dopo il recupero della sfera che contiene i sopravvissuti, le conoscenze dei tecnalti vengono sfruttate per un atroce delitto, e tutti gli indizi lasciano pensare che l''assassino voglia ripetere il suo gesto mirando stavolta a una vittima più illustre. Tutto quello che rimane del genere umano...

Paul Hoehler è un brillante ricercatore e ha scoperto qualcosa che può cambiare il mondo: campi di forza sferici che impediscono l''ingresso o l''uscita della materia imprigionata al loro interno. I guai iniziano quando i Laboratori Elettronici Livermore approfittano della nuova scoperta per impadronirsi di centri governativi, basi militari e agenzie scientifiche, racchiudendole nelle "bolle di energia" a cui non potranno più sottrarsi. Poco dopo nasce l''Autorità di Pace con lo scopo di dare alla Terra una nuova stabilità: ma perché i nuovi pacificatori proibiscono ogni genere di ricerca scientifica, mantengono un esercito bene armato e considerano Paul Hoehler il loro peggior nemico?

Non, vraiment, la vie de Dixie Mae n’a pas toujours été rose... Mais grâce à LotsaTech, et au boulot qu’elle vient de décrocher au service clients de ce géant high-tech, les choses vont changer. Telle était du moins sa conviction jusqu’à ce que lui parvienne l’email d’un mystérieux expéditeur, message qui contient quantité de détails intimes liés à son enfance et connus...

Der weltberühmte Poet Robert Gu wäre beinahe an Alzheimer gestorben und hat dabei zwanzig Jahre Fortschritt verpasst. Jetzt kommt er im Jahr 2025 mit wiederhergestelltem Verstand und Körper in San Diego zu sich und ist von der Realität schockiert. Bücher sind so gut wie ausgestorben. Computer wurden mittlerweile durch "intelligente" Kontaktlinsen ersetzt, die ihn beinahe an jedem Ort mit dem Internet verbinden können. Selbst er hat sich verändert. Er ist fünfundsiebzig, sieht jedoch fast wie ein Teenager aus. Und das ist nur die Spitze des Eisbergs des neuen Digitalen Zeitalters. Während Gu versucht, mit seiner Zukunft zurechtzukommen, zerrt ein Fremder ihn und andere Unschuldige in eine Verschwörung, die katastrophale Konsequenzen nach sich ziehen könnte ...

Una expedición humana se encuentra muy lejos de su zona, estudiando un archivo de datos que podría contener riquezas inimaginables para la joven y ambiciosa población del reino de Straumli. Desgraciadamente, mientras llevan a cabo sus investigaciones, despiertan a la Plaga, un superente maligno que está dispuesto a fagocitarse en parte con tal de que los humanos no escapen, tal y como lo han planeado en secreto. La Plaga logra destruir una de las naves, pero la otra escapa con un centenar de niños criogenizados, una familia y una contramedida, quizá la única cosa en el universo a la que tema la maligna entidad.

Aux confins de la Galaxie, une expédition a réveillé par imprudence une Perversion - une Intelligence informatique aux pouvoirs quasidivins. Sa planète d''origine, Straumli, a été détruite ainsi qu''une bonne partie des civilisations avoisinantes. Un unique navire est parvenu à fuir dans la nuit épouvantable. A son bord, deux enfants : Johanna et Jefri. Cherchant un monde où se poser, il a atteint une planète peuplée par une espèce intelligente singulière : les Dards, sortes de chiens qui, capables de communiquer par ultrasons, forment des meutes intelligentes et utilisent leurs museaux et mâchoires pour saisir en groupe des objets. Un second vaisseau a rejoint Johanna et Jefri : Ravna, institutrice, et une cargaison d''autres enfants rescapés straumliens, placés précipitamment dans des caissons d''hibernation. Ce sont ces Enfants du ciel de ce deuxième volume. Dix ou quinze ans ont passé. Les enfants ont été réveillés et constituent, avec les deux premiers qui ont grandi ainsi que Ravna, la population humaine. Ils vivent désormais en bonne intelligence avec le camp des Dards, technologiquement progressiste et d''esprit plutôt démocratique. Mais il existe sur la même planète des populations de Dards dissidents qui, tout en cherchant à s''emparer de la technologie avancée des Straumliens, ont une tout autre conception du pouvoir. Leurs chefs veulent non seulement voler les artefacts humains, mais aussi manipuler les adolescents pour qu''ils se révoltent contre Ravna. Et certains d''entre eux se trouvent engagés dans un incroyable voyage à la surface de ce monde, tandis qu''une flotte de destruction envoyée par la Perversion file à la vitesse de la lumière vers la planète des Dards. Il reste quelques décennies avant qu''elle n''arrive... Les Enfants du ciel annonce un troisième volet, qui verra arriver la flotte de la Perversion et, on le souhaite, son échec et sa destruction.

The Children of the Sky continues the epic scifi adventure of Hugo award-winning A Fire Upon the Deep! “Vinge is one of the best visionary writers of SF today.” —David Brin Thousands of years in the future, humanity is no longer alone in a universe where a mind''s potential is determined by its location in space, from superintelligent entities in the Transcend, to the limited minds of the Unthinking Depths, where only simple creatures, and technology, can function. Nobody knows what strange force partitioned space into these "regions of thought," but when the warring Straumli realm use an ancient Transcendent artifact as a weapon, they unwittingly unleash an awesome power that destroys thousands of worlds and enslaves all natural and artificial intelligence. Ten years have passed on Tines World, and Ravna and the children have survived a war. While there is peace among the Tines, there are those among them—and among the humans—who seek power...and no matter the cost, these malcontents are determined to overturn the fledgling civilization that has taken root since the humans landed. Tor books by Vernor Vinge Realtime/Bobble Series The Peace War Marooned in Realtime Other Novels The Witling Tatja Grimm''s World Rainbows End Collections Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge True Names At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

"After the Battle on Starship Hill" is more than 12000 words of prologue from Vernor Vinge''s forthcoming novel, The Children of the Sky. Taking place on Tines World, this mini e-book describes events of the years immediately following the conclusion of the predecessor novel, A Fire Upon the Deep. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Now with a new introduction for the Tor Essentials line, A Fire Upon the Deep is sure to bring a new generation of SF fans to Vinge''s award-winning works. A Hugo Award-winning Novel! “Vinge is one of the best visionary writers of SF today.”-David Brin Thousands of years in the future, humanity is no longer alone in a universe where a mind''s potential is determined by its location in space, from superintelligent entities in the Transcend, to the limited minds of the Unthinking Depths, where only simple creatures, and technology, can function. Nobody knows what strange force partitioned space into these "regions of thought," but when the warring Straumli realm use an ancient Transcendent artifact as a weapon, they unwittingly unleash an awesome power that destroys thousands of worlds and enslaves all natural and artificial intelligence. Fleeing this galactic threat, Ravna crash lands on a strange world with a ship-hold full of cryogenically frozen children, the only survivors from a destroyed space-lab. They are taken captive by the Tines, an alien race with a harsh medieval culture, and used as pawns in a ruthless power struggle. Tor books by Vernor Vinge Zones of Thought Series A Fire Upon The Deep A Deepness In The Sky The Children of The Sky Realtime/Bobble Series The Peace War Marooned in Realtime Other Novels The Witling Tatja Grimm''s World Rainbows End Collections Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge True Names At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Vinge''s masterpieces together at last, in one epic volume The Hugo Award winning A FIRE UPON THE DEEP and its epic companion novel A DEEPNESS IN THE SKY, set in the same universe but 20,000 years earlier, were benchmarks for SF in the last decade of the 20th century. In FIRE ''Vinge presents a galaxy divided into Zones - regions where different physical constraints allow very different technological and mental possibilities. Earth remains in the "Slowness" zone, where nothing can travel faster than light and minds are fairly limited. The action of the book is in the "Beyond", where translight travel and other marvels exist, and humans are one of many intelligent species. One human colony has been experimenting to find a path to the "Transcend", where intelligence and power are so great as to seem godlike. Instead they release the Blight, an evil power, from a billion-year captivity.'' Publisher''s Weekly In DEEPNESS, ''the story has the same sense of epic vastness despite happening mostly in one isolated solar system. Here there''s a world of intelligent spider creatures who traditionally hibernate through the "Deepest Darkness" of their strange variable sun''s long "off" periods, when even the atmosphere freezes. Now, science offers them an alternative. Meanwhile, attracted by spider radio transmissions, two human starfleets come exploring - merchants hoping for customers and tyrants who want slaves. Their inevitable clash leaves both fleets crippled, with the power in the wrong hands, which leads to a long wait in space until the spiders develop exploitable technology. Over the years Vinge builds palpable tension through multiple storylines and characters.'' Dave Langford

Robert Gu es un famoso poeta afectado de Alzheimer durante años y al que la medicina del futuro cercano logra recuperar y rejuvenecer. Así, debe enfrentarse a un mundo parecido pero insidiosamente distinto del que recordaba.

Four time Hugo Award winner Vernor Vinge has taken readers to the depths of space and into the far future in his bestselling novels A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky. 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. 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 how to wear your wireless access—through nodes designed into smart clothes—and to see the digital context—through smart contact lenses. With knowledge comes risk. When Robert begins to re-train at Fairmont High, learning with other older people what is second nature to Miri and other teens at school, he unwittingly becomes part of a wide-ranging conspiracy to use technology as a tool for world domination. In a world where every computer chip has Homeland Security built-in, this conspiracy is something that baffles even the most sophisticated security analysts, including Robert''s son and daughter-in law, two top people in the U.S. military. And even Miri, in her attempts to protect her grandfather, may be entangled in the plot. As Robert becomes more deeply involved in conspiracy, he is shocked to learn of a radical change planned for the UCSD Geisel Library; all the books there, and worldwide, would cease to physically exist. He and his fellow re-trainees feel compelled to join protests against the change. With forces around the world converging on San Diego, both the conspiracy and the protest climax in a spectacular moment as unique and satisfying as it is unexpected. This is science fiction at its very best, by a master storyteller at his peak. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Tor Essentials presents new editions of science fiction and fantasy titles of proven merit and lasting value, each volume introduced by an appropriate literary figure. After thousands of years of searching, humans stand on the verge of first contact with an alien race. Two human groups: the Qeng Ho, a culture of free, innovative traders, and the Emergents, a ruthless society based on the technological enslavement of minds. The group that opens trade with the aliens will reap unimaginable riches. But first, both groups must wait at the aliens'' very doorstep, for their strange star to relight and for the alien planet to reawaken, as it does every two hundred and fifteen years... Amidst terrible treachery, the Qeng Ho must fight for their freedom and for the lives of the unsuspecting innocents on the planet below, while the aliens themselves play a role unsuspected by Qeng Ho and Emergents alike. More than just a great science fiction adventure, A Deepness In the Sky is a universal drama of courage, self-discovery, and the redemptive power of love. This new Tor Essentials edition of Vernor Vinge''s A Deepness In the Sky includes an introduction by the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award-winning Jo Walton, author of Among Others. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.