![]() ![]() Flenser, Steel's creator, supposedly assassinated, comes back as Tyrathect, who impersonates the Master while serving Steel's interests. The Flenserists are led by Steel and the southerners by Woodcarver. ![]() Young Johanna and Jefri are seized by rival warring tribes and believe the other is dead. The parents are killed upon landing on a planet deep enough in the Slow Zone to be safe, by the wolf-like inhabitants ("Tines") who function only in packs. The Olsndot family escapes with the colonists' children in suspended animation and a "Countermeasure" that has successfully defeated the Blight aeons earlier. ![]() Human scientists, lured by profit, develop a lost, inadvertently releasing the "Straumli Perversion," also known as "the Blight," on computers and sentient beings throughout the High Beyond. Two warring factions adopt human siblings who survive the landing, learning from them technology to bring about military victory. The world on which the starship carrying the mystery has landed has a medieval social order and dog-like sentient creatures are the dominant species. A Fire upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge tells a tale of human scientists inadvertently releasing an ancient Blight on the universe, and the Blight racing an expedition to find what mystery has escaped their control: a secret that can make the Blight even more powerful or a Countermeasure that can once again defeat it. ![]()
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