Vernor Vinge's Zones of Thought novels share a galaxy in which the laws of intelligence and technology change according to where you are. A Fire Upon the Deep introduces the idea through a catastrophic artificial intelligence and a civilisation of dog-like group minds; A Deepness in the Sky is an earlier-set story about rival human expeditions, while The Children of the Sky continues directly from A Fire Upon the Deep. The books are connected but not one linear trilogy, so publication order is the simplest first reading. Vinge combines space opera with unusual alien societies and big ideas about intelligence, communication and technological limits. Read more Less
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