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Product:	A Fire Upon the Deep - Vernor Vinge
Date:	13.10.01 (13 review reads)
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Advantages: good

Disadvantages: bad

This is a wonderful story with the most imaginative aliens ever! One cannot put this book down as our 4 heroes race to rescue a boy ,who is marooned on a medieval planet populated with dog like creatures ,who only have human like conciousnesses if they live as packs. The heroes race to rescue this boy and the Galaxy!! It is wonderful how the author brings together this medival word and the greater world of the outer Galaxy! Although this is an excellent novel, there is one draw back. The story is interwoven with messages from the "Net". The problem is this "Net" is just like the Internet as it was when the book was published in 1992. The messages from the net are just like Newsgroups that are on the Internet and where probably the latest thing in 1992. The Internet has changed so much since 1992 and it's really hard to believe that in the future this "Net" would resemble so much this "1992ish" Internet. I can't understand why the author couldn't come up with something more inovative for a galactic-type Internet

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