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This is the first Vinge work which introduces localizers. These are tiny devices which can contain a simple processor, sensors, and short-range communications. Vinge explores how mesh networking of these devices can put to use in ways quite different than traditional computer networks.
Did this novel come before or after his novella, Fast Times at Fairmont High? Localizers also play a major role in that work. -- NeuronExMachina 18:24, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Anyways, localizers also were used in The Peace War (although I'm not sure they were used under that name). -- Stephan Schulz 01:57, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)
The article for A Fire Upon the Deep states that A Deepness in the Sky is set twenty thousand years earlier. But this article states that this novel is set thirty thousand years earlier. Which is it? Was the author vague, or inconsistent? How far in the future is A Fire Upon the Deep set? -- NotWillDecker
The Qeng Ho arrive at the On/Off star a number of decades before the Emergency fleet arrives
Heads up. - 4.240.238.78 06:39, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
I remember some reference to the Internet Engineering Task Force in the book. What role did Vinge give them again? Kalaong ( talk) 13:46, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
I thought I might add what the titles mean in English but I had to use Google translator and other online translators. Can other people check what I've come up with?
Chinese: Poles apart; [Formal] worlds apart; as different as high heaven and deep sea
Finnish: Celestial Depths
Russian: Depth in the sky
Croatian: Hole in the sky
French: In the Depths of Heaven
Italian: When Light Returns
Japanese: 最果ての銀河船団 (saihate no genga sendan) [lit: Galaxy Fleet's Farthest End] Title taken from Vinge's Japanese Wiki article
Darthjarek (
talk) 12:21, 26 December 2008 (UTC)
I find a great similarity between these two characters. I think this is emphasized in the first part of this book and the first part of Time Enough for Love but the similar incidents at these times aren't the only common features. Their vast ages and the reverence with which some people treat them are other similarities. Even more, I find their personalities somewhat similar. 76.28.103.69 ( talk) 17:45, 28 August 2009 (UTC)Will in New Haven 76.28.103.69 ( talk) 17:45, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
The term seems to be used primarily or only in geography, not history. Evidently used here to mean something like "critical moment". Perhaps it's a translation of an expression in another language that has that meaning, but it's not clear in English, so I have changed it. -- Thnidu ( talk) 05:11, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
Afterthought: "critical juncture" is often used this way. -- Thnidu ( talk) 21:15, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
The plot summary currently states that Nuwen and the "younger Qeng Ho" (Ezr Vinh) defeated the Emergents. In fact, the spiders themselves do most of the work. A major part of the plot towards the end of the book is that some of the spiders had already secretly learned of the human presence in their system, and had already hacked into the Emergents' system; in the end, it is their own actions that foil the Emergent attack. The Qeng Ho's own attempt largely fails. The summary should be re-written to at least briefly address this, as it's a pretty major element of the plot. I don't think I'm up to it myself, however. 12 Oct. 2011
I've just read a TOR paperback edition, 2000, which has OnOff throughout. Did the first edition have On/Off? -- Richardson mcphillips ( talk) 18:48, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
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