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Tatja Grimm's World

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Availability:In StockContributor:Vernor VingePublish date:2006-01-24Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:Tor BooksISBN-13:9780765308856ISBN-10:765308851UPC:9780765308856Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Science FictionSize:8.40 x 5.50 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCJJJCYPY1

Multiple Hugo Award winner Vernor Vinge's first full-length novel

As a mud-spattered youngster, Tatja quickly realized she was different from the stone-age primitives with whom she grew up. Her insatiable curiosity and thirst for knowledge could not be quenched among them; she had to explore and learn more about the strange world she lived on.

She finds the bastion of all culture, arts, entertainment and history for the entire planet, the seven-hundred-year-old science fiction magazine Fantasie, which is produced entirely aboard a gargantuan floating vessel the size of a small city. But despite the printing presses, sail-powered vessels, and mind-expanding technology, Tatja is still dissatisfied. Rising through the ranks, she finds that the people on the enormous barge are just as unintelligent as the primitives she grew up with. But others have come to the planet who not only challenge her intelligence, but offer her a tantalizing opportunity to uncover answers to mysteries that have long plagued her.

But with opportunity comes risk. And if she acts unwisely, she could bring doom to the only world she knows.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Tor BooksISBN-13:9780765308856ISBN-10:765308851UPC:9780765308856Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Science FictionSize:8.40 x 5.50 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCJJJCYPY1
Vernor Vinge has won five Hugo Awards, two of them in the Zones of Thought series: A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky. Known for his rigorous hard-science approach to his science fiction, he became an iconic figure among cybernetic scientists with the publication in 1981 of his novella "True Names," which is considered a seminal, visionary work of Internet fiction. His many books also include Marooned in Realtime, Rainbows End and The Peace War.
Publisher: Tor Books

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