“Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.”
Source: A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), Chapter 7 (p. 68) (motto of the Qeng Ho trading group).
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 .
“And now each second was as long as all the time before.”
Prologue (p. 4).
A Fire Upon the Deep (1992)
Context: The hours came to minutes, the minutes to seconds. And now each second was as long as all the time before.
“How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.”
Prologue (p. 1; opening words).
A Fire Upon the Deep (1992)
Source: A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), Chapter 18 (p. 226).
“We realize that this means the destruction of solar systems, but consider the alternative.”
Source: A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), Chapter 14 (p. 161).
Context: If during the last thousand seconds you have received any High-Beyond-protocol packets from "Arbitration Arts," discard them at once. If they have been processed, then the processing site and all locally netted sites must be physically destroyed at once. We realize that this means the destruction of solar systems, but consider the alternative. You are under Transcendent attack.
