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November 29, 2005
This Title Will Be Released On May 16, 2006
If you're as big a fan of Vernor Vinge as I am, this should interest you. His newest novel is only five and a half months away. Rainbows End (Zones of Thought) Thanks Amazon.com! Here's their bland summary... 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. So he's explicitly labeling it as a "Zones of Thought" story. I wouldn't have expected that. Here's the cover art (Just so you'll know what to look for). Is that a bunny rabbit gazing pensively out over the City of the Future? He seems to be wearing clothing of some sort. For your listening pleasure, here's a keynote presentation Professor Vinge delivered in September at Accelerating Change 2005. And here's a story set in the same milieu as the upcoming novel, available as an eBook. A brief sample follows... Final exam week was always chaos at Fairmont Junior High. The school's motto was "Trying hard not to become obsolete"--and the kids figured that applied to the faculty more than anyone else. This semester they got through the first morning--Ms. Wilson's math exam--without a hitch, but already in the afternoon the staff was tweaking things around: Principal Alcalde scheduled a physical assembly during what should have been student prep time.
posted by Justin on 11.29.05 at 07:50 AM |
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I'm not sure that this novel is part of Vinge's Zones of Thought universe (_A Fire Upon the Deep_, _A Deepness in the Sky_) -- it seems more likely that Amazon made a mistake.