There is a summary with no spoilers at the start of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5jTNUSIR18
Very different plot, with a few connecting elements to the former, but still cracking good sci Fi.
His "True Names" is everything you need to know about "cyberspace", written in 1981 but still seems modern today:
> True Names is a 1981 science fiction novella by American writer Vernor Vinge, a seminal work of the cyberpunk genre. It is one of the earliest stories to present a fully fleshed-out concept of cyberspace, which would later be central to cyberpunk. The story also contains elements of transhumanism, anarchism, and even hints about The Singularity.
> True Names first brought Vinge to prominence as a science fiction writer. It also inspired many real-life hackers and computer scientists; a 2001 book about the novella, True Names: And the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier, included essays by Danny Hillis, Marvin Minsky, Mark Pesce, Richard Stallman and others.[1] It was awarded the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award in 2007.
A Fire Upon The Deep belongs on any sci-fi cannon and is probably top 10.