![]() ![]() ![]() So learning that Vinge had written something dealing with events closer to our time intrigued me, and I launched into Rainbows End ready to be amazed. The true nature of the superweapon is never made entirely clear, and too much of the book feels like a textbook introduction to Vinge's near-future world. I recently discovered Vernor Vinge and devoured a Deepness in the Sky and A Fire Upon the Deep, both of which I highly recommend and will probably read again several times. Unbeknownst to Robert, he's also a pawn in a dark international conspiracy to perfect a deadly biological weapon. Installed in remedial classes at the local high school, he tries to adjust to this brave new world, but soon finds himself enmeshed in a somewhat quixotic plot by elderly former University of California–San Diego faculty members to protest the destruction of the university library, now rendered superfluous by the ubiquitous online databanks. Robert Gu, a talented Chinese-American poet, has missed much of this revolution due to Alzheimer's, but now the wonders of modern medicine have rehabilitated his mind. "Silent messaging" is so automatic that it feels like telepathy. Circa 2025, people use high-tech contact lenses to interface with computers in their clothes. ) offers dazzling computer technology but lacks dramatic tension. Set in San Diego, Calif., this hard SF novel from Hugo-winner Vinge ( A Deepness in the Sky ![]()
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