Threats and Other Promises

by Vernor Vinge

Book Overview

Threats and Other Promises [Paperback] Vernor Vinge This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671697900
• ISBN13: 9780671697907
• Release Date: November 1988
• Publisher: Baen Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A mixed bag, perhaps, but no clunkers...

This book might have a mixed bag of stories, but there's no real clunkers in it: I disagree with the previous reviewer... most of the stories are at the very least "good", and I would recommend this and its companion "True Names and Other Dangers" to any Vinge fan. The "singularity" is also a background element in more of the stories than is immediately obvious. One other thing to keep in mind, as you read "The Blabber" - Vinge has said it's not intended as a sequel to "A Fire Upon the Deep", the names of the characters notwithstanding.