description: Thousands of years in the future, humanity is no longer alone in a universe where a mind's potential is determined by its location in space, from superintelligent entities in the Transcend, to the limited minds of the Unthinking Depths, where only simple creatures, and technology, can function. Nobody knows what strange force partitioned space into these "regions of thought," but when the warring Straumli realm use an ancient Transcendent artifact as a weapon, they unwittingly unleash an awesome power that destroys thousands of worlds and enslaves all natural and artificial intelligence.Fleeing this galactic threat, Ravna crash lands on a strange world with a ship-hold full of cryogenically frozen children, the only survivors from a destroyed space-lab. They are taken captive by the Tines, an alien race with a harsh medieval culture, and used as pawns in a ruthless power struggle.
language: English
title: A Fire Upon the Deep
titlecomplete: A Fire Upon the Deep
characters: Jefri Olsndot, Johanna Olsndot, Ravna Bergsndot, Greenstalk, Tyrathect, Blueshell, Peregrine Wickwrackrum, Pham Nuwen, Steel, Flenser, Scriber Jaqueramaphan
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Space Opera, Aliens, Science Fiction Fantasy, Space, Hugo Awards, Fantasy, Audiobook
ratings_count: 59160
series: Zones of Thought
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Nebula Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Locus Award
category: Best SF Novel, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis
category: Bester ausländischer SF-Roman, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: John W. Campbell Memorial Award, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire
category: Traduction, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Premio Ignotus
category: Mejor novela extranjera, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: SF Chronicle Award
category: Novel, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Prix Cosmos 2000
publisher: Tor Books