Fireship – Joan Vinge
I’m sure when I picked this up I thought this was a Vernor Vinge book. Turns out they are husband and wife. I wasn’t disappointed though this was a decent enough book and well worth the used book store price I paid for it and the time invested in reading it. It’s actually two novellas, the first Fireship about a man who has megered his mind with a self aware supercomputer. The second story, Mother and Child, while not as fun to read was more interesting intellectually. It told the story of a world that was being purposefully kept primitive by an alien race that was frightened by the natives aggressiveness. It had themes that reminded me of Brin’s Uplift Saga and Godwin’s, Parke Godwin not the Godwin’s law Godwin (that’s Mike Godwin), Waiting For the Galatic Bus.
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