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I agree - I read the trilogy and enjoyed it somewhat but I wouldn't recommend it to others (unlike e.g. Hyperion Cantos or Fire Upon the Deep, etc).

The amount of suspension of disbelief for some questionable premises is very high. e.g. the real-time comms developed by one of the races breaks down one of the key axioms.

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I read TBP and A Deepness in the Sky at the same time. Despite the "big ideas", TBP isn't even in the same league. Can't bring myself to read the second TBP book, just don't care. Did buy a Fire Upon a Deep recently, looking forward to it.

A Fire Upon the Deep is SUCH a good book. I loved it; the idea that something like the '90s net news had gone galaxy-wide was a great plot idea....

The first chapter itself was gripping. I was like, if this book is 1/10 as good as the first chapter, I'm sold. It's now one of the books I recommend to teen scifi readers.

Vinge is a master.

"Rainbows End" is must-read cyberpunk IMO. (And of course he wrote "True Names". (In '81!))

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