Rainbows End

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Mass Market Paperback, 381 pages

English language

Published April 3, 2007 by Tor Science Fiction.

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978-0-8125-3636-2
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Rainbows End is a 2006 science fiction novel by Vernor Vinge. It was awarded the 2007 Hugo Award for Best Novel. The book is set in San Diego, California, in 2025, in a variation of the fictional world Vinge explored in his 2002 Hugo-winning novella "Fast Times at Fairmont High" and 2004's "Synthetic Serendipity". Vinge has tentative plans for a sequel, picking up some of the loose threads left at the end of the novel. The many technological advances depicted in the novel suggest that the world is undergoing ever-increasing change, following the technological singularity, a recurring subject in Vinge's fiction and nonfiction writing.

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reviewed Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge

Captivating plot, mediocre setting

Cyberpunk crime thriller written in 2006 and set in 2025. Interesting plot, vivid characters but the cyberpunk part is mediocre at best.

I won't even compare it to classics of the cyberpunk genre like Gibson and Stevenson. It is now 2026, and Vinges' view of our era feels naive.

Subjects

  • Science Fiction And Fantasy
  • Fiction
  • Fiction - Science Fiction
  • Science Fiction
  • Science Fiction - General
  • Fiction / Science Fiction / General
  • 20th century
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  • Poets, American