The Children of the Sky
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The Children of the Sky
| Full title | The Children of the Sky (Zones of Thought, Book 3) |
|---|---|
| Author | Vernor Vinge |
| Published | 2011 |
| Pages | 444 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Vernor Vinge’s direct sequel to A Fire Upon the Deep, and the quietest of the three Zones of Thought books: no galactic threat arrives, and the story is what the stranded humans and the pack-mind species do to each other over years of coalition-building, faction politics and technology transfer. The governance volume of the series — what happens after the emergency, when the question is who decides. |
Where I heard about it
- a16z’s infrastructure team — on the a16z Infra Reading List, in the Sci-fi — Very good books section (A tier), the third of the three Zones of Thought volumes named.
About this edition
It presumes the events of the first book, so a reader starting here will be missing the setup.
Connections
- a16z Infra Reading List — the list this came from.
- Vernor Vinge — the author.
- A Fire Upon the Deep — the volume this continues directly.
- A Deepness in the Sky — the prequel in the same series.
- Governance — the book’s actual subject: who governs a mixed society nobody designed.
- Science Fiction — the genre page.
- a16z — the firm whose infra team curates the list.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.