A Fire Upon the Deep

Millennia after the events on the planet Arachna, a small group of scientists finds an ancient archive and inadvertently releases an astonishing force—the Great Evil that destroys thousands of worlds and enslaves all natural and artificial intelligence. It would seem that nothing could stop Doom. And yet, perhaps the people have an antidote—and so they suddenly find themselves at the center of attention of all the intelligent beings of the Galaxy…

The novel “Flame over the Abyss” is the winner of the prestigious Hugo Award, a Nebula Award nominee, and the recipient of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.