A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought)

About “A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought)”

Set thirty thousand years before the events of A Fire upon the Deep, this 1999 novel by Vernor Vinge follows Pham Nuwen, living anonymously among the Qeng Ho interstellar trading fleet in orbit above the planet Arachna, awaiting the awakening of its dormant Spider population. The slumbering Spiders' vulnerability has attracted the Emergents, whose sinister plans lead to a devastating attack on the Qeng Ho fleet.