Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge

Author:Vernor Vinge [Vinge, Vernor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Science Fiction, Hard Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780812515282
Google: fCCWWgZ7d6UC
Amazon: 0812515285
Goodreads: 77711
Publisher: SFBC
Published: 1992-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Ravna thought a moment, brightened. The Dirokimes and

Lophers would stand against any threat to humankind at

Sjandra Kei. "Yeah. We're not a ghetto there." Things might be very bad for isolated humans, but Sjandra Kei would be

okay. "Bluffers. Well it's not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing." She pulled her mind back from worries beyond her control. "But one thing is clear. Stopping at Harmonious Repose, we must be damn sure not to look like anything

human."

And of course, part of not looking human was that there be no sign of Ravna and Pham. The Riders would do all the

"talking". Ravna and the Riders went through all the ship's exterior programs, weeding out human nuances that had

crept in since they left Relay. And if they were actually

boarded? Well, they would never survive a determined

search, but they isolated things human in a fake jovian hold.

The two humans would slip in there if necessary.

Pham Nuwen checked what they did -- and found more than

one slip-up. For a barbarian programmer, he wasn't bad. But then they were rapidly reaching the depths where the best

computer equipment wasn't that much more sophisticated

than what he had known.

Ironically, there was one thing they could not disguise: that the OOB was from the Top of the Beyond. True, the ship was a bottom lugger and based on a Mid Beyond design. But

there was an elegance to the refit that screamed of nearly superhuman competence. "The damn thing has the feel of a hand axe built in a factory," was how Pham Nuwen put it.

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