Title: A Fire upon the Deep (Zones of Thought #1)
Author: Vernor Vinge
Year: Tor
Publisher: 1995/2010
Pages: 613
Read as physical and audiobook.
A long novel with lots of interesting ideas about the nature of space itself as it influences technology and consciousness, the expansion and clash of civilizations, what characteristics make one a person, and found or stolen or jettisoned technology. But it comes down to a boy, a girl, a young woman, a constructed young/old man, a cosmic consciousness, and a bunch of philosophizing telepathic dogs. Doesn't it always?
A great big novel that moved along quickly at most points, and sets the stage for two subsequent great big novels (at least one with telepathic dogs).
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