Sci-Fi full on
Bewertet mit 3.5 Sternen
For some years this book waited in my shelf to be read... Finally now I `worked` through it. A Fire Upon the Deep won the Hugo award in 1993 and in my opinion definitely earned this prize. What a partly brilliant science fiction novel. It truly expands the mind into the depths of a super diverse populated universe, divided into four "Zones of Thought". The Unthinking Depths, the Slow Zone, the Beyond and the Transcend. Each zone corresponds to certain states of mental form, intelligence and physical laws effecting organic and unorganic life and machinery. Very interesting concept, from which the author spins a adventure space story with mind blowing events, a kind of classic fight good vs. evil (heroines and heros included) across space and full of fascinating entities everywhere. One of the protagonist species are dog-like creatures that act as a unit in packs of 4-8 members, forming a medieval community by technical standards. Gives the story a good idiosyncratic spin. Apart from this inspiring sci-fi firework, the novel is tediously long. Overly detailed and repetitive descriptions, lengthy dialogs and scenes make the 600-page novel a real challenge. Several times I was tempted to read the end and skip part of the story, only to continue reading again. It seems as if the writer had fun writing it and was sometimes writing to spend time in the novel with the characters to develop the story. It was really worth reading it. As said brilliant and captivating (partly) and mind expanding. Nevertheless, I'm glad to have finally finished the novel ;) But... great - Science fiction full on.