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A Deepness in the Sky

Sunday, 11 February 2007

A Deepness in the Sky

I just finished reading Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky. It's a great read if you like "hard" science fiction, and at almost 800 pages it is very satisfying. The book is set 8,000 or so years in the future, when humans have spread to numerous stars covering more than 100 light years of space. In that time, numerous new "ethnic groups" have emerged, people having changed somewhat as a result of varying environmental conditions and other factors. One such group is the StrentMannians, a matriarchal society based on a heavy-gravity world. People from that group are extremely strong and muscular, including Qiwi Lin Lisolet, one of the female characters in the story and a real cutie. Here's a description of her physical capabilities from the book:

[Qiwi] departed up the central shaft, pulling herself hand over hand faster and faster, all but rocketing past the other people in the shaft. Qiwi still practiced every day in a two-gee centrifuge, still practiced the martial killing arts. It was all that was left of her mother's influence, at least all that was visible.

[...]
She had the strength and speed, at least, to kill with her hands. [Thomas Nau] hadn't understood that in the early years. But that was also before he had realized what a valuable thing she was.

I won't give any spoilers on what she does with that double-gravity physique of hers, but there's foreshadowing aplenty.

A Deepness in the Sky [Amazon.com]

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