![]() ![]() ![]() On his destination world, the fascinating Tines are intelligent only in combination: named "individuals" are small packs of the doglike aliens. Pham Nuwen, the man who knows about Countermeasure, escapes this ruin in the spacecraft Out of Band-heading for more violence and treachery, with 500 warships soon in hot pursuit. One paranoid alien alliance blames humanity for the Blight and launches a genocidal strike. And the half-mythical Countermeasure, if it exists, is lost with two human children on primitive Tines World. Outside that again is the Transcend, full of unguessable, godlike "Powers." When human meddling wakes an old Power, the Blight, this spreads like a wildfire mind virus that turns whole civilizations into its unthinking tools. In this Hugo-winning 1991 SF novel, Vernor Vinge gives us a wild new cosmology, a galaxy-spanning "Net of a Million Lies," some finely imagined aliens, and much nail-biting suspense.įaster-than-light travel remains impossible near Earth, deep in the galaxy's Slow Zone-but physical laws relax in the surrounding Beyond. ![]()
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