Talk:A Deepness in the Sky

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[edit] Localizers

This is the first Vinge work which introduces localizers. These are tiny devices which can contain a simple processor, sensors, and short-range communications. Vinge explores how mesh networking of these devices can put to use in ways quite different than traditional computer networks.

Did this novel come before or after his novella, Fast Times at Fairmont High? Localizers also play a major role in that work. --NeuronExMachina 18:24, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Anyways, localizers also were used in The Peace War (although I'm not sure they were used under that name). --Stephan Schulz 01:57, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Where? - Omegatron 23:23, May 23, 2005 (UTC)

I read a borrowed copy a few years back (it was out of print until recently). But it was a scene where some hunting/ambush was going on, and the Tinker technology was used to neutralize some thugs. The localizers used were bigger than the ones in Deepness, and did not move under their own power, if I remember correctly. --Stephan Schulz 11:06, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

Ahhh... with like the homing bullets and stuff. I remember that bit now. - Omegatron 13:41, May 24, 2005 (UTC)

Got it! --Stephan Schulz 13:57, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

The article for A Fire Upon the Deep states that A Deepness in the Sky is set twenty thousand years earlier. But this article states that this novel is set thirty thousand years earlier. Which is it? Was the author vague, or inconsistent? How far in the future is A Fire Upon the Deep set? --NotWillDecker

I think the interval between stories is never more than speculated about. that was my impression. Phams character in the original novel (fire upon the deep) is to a degree a kind of frankenstein lash up created from bits and pieces salvaged from a wreck (or wrecks) that have drifted up out of the slowzone. his age is therefore hard to pin point. - RD.

One beats the other by decades, but it doesn't matter since they are both waiting for the Spiders to defrost eventually. --Gwern (contribs) 03:21, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

The Qeng Ho arrive at the On/Off star a number of decades before the Emergency fleet arrives

I don't think that's true. I thought they arrived at the same time. — Omegatron 04:31, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

I'm reasonably sure they don't; I remember reading some lines to the effect that Qeng Ho watched the Emergents coast in-system for a long time. --Gwern (contribs) 04:48, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

It states that the Qeng Ho watched the Emergents arrive while they (the Qeng Ho, with faster ships) were decellerating. The Qeng Ho arrived first, but certainly not a few decades earlier. (I’m currently reading the book.) -Ahruman 21:12, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

OK then. My mistake. --Gwern (contribs) 21:15 13 January 2007 (GMT)