{"id":51520,"date":"2024-12-22T11:42:38","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T19:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=51520"},"modified":"2025-04-13T10:47:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T17:47:37","slug":"a-deepness-in-the-sky-by-vernor-vinge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/12\/22\/a-deepness-in-the-sky-by-vernor-vinge\/","title":{"rendered":"A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:808,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/1221f965-bd87-4ec9-8989-99f8be13276f&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20240321080949\\\/https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/1221f965-bd87-4ec9-8989-99f8be13276f&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-01 13:43:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 23:11:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-31 10:46:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-31 10:46:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>73\/2024 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/1221f965-bd87-4ec9-8989-99f8be13276f\">&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/a> 2000 Hugo Best Novel<\/p>\n<p>Interstellar travel spanning centuries, plans and plots spanning decades and more, first contact, an alien civilization presented in both very relateable and very alien ways\u2026all sorts of good stuff here. Technically in the same universe as Vinge&#8217;s <em>A Fire Upon the Deep<\/em>, but so removed in space and time as to be standalone, with only a few connections to the other. Really enjoyed how Vinge presented the Spiders, and the revelations towards the end that I didn&#8217;t guess at all. An excellent read.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/vv_adits-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding A Deepness in the Sky.\" title=\"vv_adits.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"2016\" height=\"1512\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#x1f4da;: &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;: First contact with aliens, schemes and plots spanning decades and centuries, mind control\u2026an excellent read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036,2049],"tags":[2012,3313,5813,5814],"class_list":["post-51520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photos","tag-hugoaward","tag-hugobestnovel","tag-vernor-vinge","tag-zones-of-thought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51520"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52006,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51520\/revisions\/52006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}