![]() ![]() While the Blight destroys whole races and star systems, a team of two humans and two aliens races to rescue the others, pursued by the Blight's agents and other enemies. As the Blight begins to spread, a few humans flee with a secret that might destroy it, but they are stranded in a primitive low-tech world barely in the Beyond. ![]() ![]() Instead they release the Blight, an evil power, from a billion-year captivity. One human colony has been experimenting with ancient technology in order to find a path to the ``Transcend,'' where intelligence and power are so great as to seem godlike. The action of the book is in the ``Beyond,'' where translight travel and other marvels exist, and humans are one of many intelligent species. Earth remains in the ``Slowness'' zone, where nothing can travel faster than light and minds are fairly limited. Vinge presents a galaxy divided into Zones-regions where different physical constraints allow very different technological and mental possibilities. ![]() It has been six years since Vinge's last book ( Marooned in Realtime ), but the wait proves worthwhile in this stimulating tale filled with ideas, action and likable, believable characters, both alien and human. ![]()
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