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>>22824483
Finished 'deepness in the sky' by Vernor Vinge.

5/5

This concludes my journey in 'The Zones of Thought', I have now read all three books.
(unless I read Joan D. Vinge's novel 'The Outcasts of Heaven Belt' or 'Babel' by Vernor Vinge.)

It was a rather long book and took longer to arrive at the peak action than any other in the series. It also had less enjoyable deviations than the others, but I also enjoy the doggos and the gossipers on the middle transcend net.

The characters are all really well portrayed and you do actually learn to like them and know all about them, like, not many books make me actually understand and care for this many characters.

Hell most books I couldn't name the characters, I literally finished hyperion 1-2 days ago and I only remember the consul, saia (the Hawaiian island girl?? I know I fucked it up), m letson?, the shrike doesn't fucking count.

I'm not saying hyperion characters were bad, I'm just saying that these characters really grew on you.

Vernor Vinge loves betrayels, secrets, manipulation, double agents, triple agents, twists and turns and plots on plots within plots. Okay maybe not that much but this book is classic Vinge in that way.

Suspense wise? A Fire Upon the deep is still miles ahead of this, that book had me literally frantically turning pages like a mad man at the end of the book to see what was happening.

Quick tier list
1, a fire upon the deep
2, children of the sky
3, a deepness in the sky
I feel bad about putting it at third. I really want to just put both of them at 2nd place.

Spoiler review
I'm going to really miss Pham, he actually feels so much more grounded than other MC heroes. He wants the focus so bad but gives it up etc. I suppose the ending of the book means he beat the emergents and headed into the core of the galaxy, this is where he was then rescued and brought into 'a fire upon the deep', I wish we knew what happened to him more. I wish we knew what happened to the spiders, I wish vernor Vinge had enough energy to write 10 more novels. It feels like a giant galaxy that could easily be expanded upon at every corner. Okay anyways, this book was certainly dark at some points, qiwis mom getting raped and murdered and her daughter reliving the experience of finding the video tapes over and over before being mindscrubbed was so quick in reference but it sticks with you so much. Pham nuwens back story and childhood, damn this book has sooo much content. My review is probably all over the place but there was a lot here.

I give up describing it. It was amazing.