“Sometimes the biggest disasters aren’t noticed at all—no one’s around to write horror stories.”
Source: A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), Chapter 33 (p. 443).
Quotes from work
A Fire Upon the Deep (1st edition)
A Fire Upon the Deep is a 1992 science fiction novel by American writer Vernor Vinge. It is a space opera involving superhuman intelligences, aliens, variable physics, space battles, love, betrayal, genocide, and a communication medium resembling Usenet. A Fire Upon the Deep won the Hugo Award in 1993, sharing it with Doomsday Book by Connie Willis.Besides the normal print book editions, the novel was also included on a CD-ROM sold by ClariNet Communications along with the other nominees for the 1993 Hugo awards. The CD-ROM edition included numerous annotations by Vinge on his thoughts and intentions about different parts of the book, and was later released as a standalone e-book .
““I have come to kill you.”
The death’s heads shrugged. “You have come to try.””
Source: A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), Chapter 39 (p. 555).
“If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.”
Source: A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), Chapter 41 (p. 580).
Source: A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), Chapter 33 (p. 428).
Source: A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), p. 245.
“Well, what do you know," Pham said. "Butterflies in jackboots.”
Source: A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), Chapter 26 (p. 318).
“"Poor humans; they will all die."
"Poor us; we will not."”
Prologue (p. 2).
A Fire Upon the Deep (1992)
“He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.”
Source: A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), Chapter 11 (p. 109).
Source: A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), Chapter 35 (pp. 483-484).
Source: A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), Chapter 31 (p. 373).
Epilogs (p. 595).
A Fire Upon the Deep (1992)
Source: A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), Chapter 32 (p. 397).
“Life is a green madness just now, trying to squeeze the last bit of warmth from the season.”
Source: A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), Chapter 12 (p. 119).
“The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.”
Source: A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), Chapter 37 (p. 519).
Source: A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), Chapter 14 (p. 145).
“It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.”
Source: A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), Chapter 18 (p. 228).
“The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.”
Source: A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), Chapter 5 (p. 51).
“I say, let’s learn more and then speculate.”
Source: A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), Chapter 12 (p. 122).
Source: A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), Chapter 2 (p. 18).
