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This gets posted from time to time. I highly recommend Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep. One of my favorite SciFi novels of all time. When I read it (90s), before the www was in wide spread adoption and usenet was king, there are some very funny usenet riffs in the book. Anyone that was alive and aware of early usenet will appreciate it. My favorite Vinge usenet header: Translation-Path.

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I've tried so many times to read that book, but I can never get past the packs of communal-brain dogs.

Indeed, it's essentially two books in one, and that half of it was always a slog to get through.

Marooned in Realtime is better for getting the Singularity across, although you really need to read The Peace War first; this collection has both plus a bridging short: http://www.amazon.com/Across-Realtime-Vernor-Vinge/dp/185798...

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