1993's most visibleSF author - winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel (A Fire Upon the Deep), and The British Science Fiction Association's Novel of the Year. Simply the best - classic, eon-spanning science fiction. * Cover-featured title in Antivity, Millennium's very successful and widely mailed news-and-SF-entertainment magazine.
Two science fiction novels combined into one epic conveying the experience of travelling through millions of years of time.
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- 1993's most visibleSF author - winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel (A Fire Upon the Deep), and The British Science Fiction Association's Novel of the Year. Simply the best - classic, eon-spanning science fiction. Cover-featured title in Antivity, Millennium's very successful and widely mailed news-and-SF-entertainment magazine.
Two science fiction novels combined into one epic conveying the experience of travelling through millions of years of time.
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'The intricately plotted progress of characters from near to farfuture... on an Earth which, like an abandon playground, has long ago been left behind by an evolving humanity... human-scale action within a vast canvas' The Excyclopedia of Science Fiction. Encompassing time-travel, powerful mystery and the future history of humanity to its last handful of survivors, Across Realtime spans millions of years and isan utterly engrossing SF classic. 'You can hardly turn the pages fast enough. As sheer entertainment, it's a winner' Locus
About the Author
Vernor Vinge (1944 - )
Vernor Steffen Vinge was born in Wisconsin in 1944. He is a retired San Diego State University Professor of Mathematics, a computer scientist and science fiction author. He is best known for his two epic space operas A Fire Upon the Deep (1992) and A Deepness in the Sky (1999), both of which won the Hugo Award and were shortlisted for the Nebula. He is the winner of 5 Hugos, 4 Prometheus Awards and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, among many others. In addition to his works of science fiction, Vinge is authored the influential 1993 essay 'The Coming Technological Singularity', in which he argued that the creation of superhuman artificial intelligence will mark the point at which 'the human era will be ended', such that no current models of reality are sufficient to predict beyond it.'The intricately plotted progress of characters from near to farfuture... on an Earth which, like an abandon playground, has long ago been left behind by an evolving humanity... human-scale action within a vast canvas' The Excyclopedia of Science Fiction. Encompassing time-travel, powerful mystery and the future history of humanity to its last handful of survivors, Across Realtime spans millions of years and isan utterly engrossing SF classic. 'You can hardly turn the pages fast enough. As sheer entertainment, it's a winner' Locus
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