And the whole point is that the pack has to stay together in order to stay a cohesive person-and they do think of themselves as individual people, as a pack. … They cannot go into close proximity with each other or they start to lose their sense of self because if they stand three or four members next to another one, they start overlapping thoughts. Their minds are connected, so there’s four to eight wolf individuals, which are called “members,” but three of them cannot form a complete individual. They’re adorable, first of all, because they’re basically wolf packs. The book really had a huge impact on my ability to plot and think about the structure of novels because I really dissected it over and over again because I just wanted to figure out how in the heck he did it. And I drew the plot of the book out onto 10 pieces of paper that I could unfold and stretch out over a whole floor so I could see the shape of the book visually, and I used different colored pens for different points of view.
… I even paid my sister 20 bucks to count how many pages were in each chapter, and I built a chart of what point of view was in each chapter and what happened in each chapter.
I was low-key obsessed with this book when I was in high school. And check out some highlights from the discussion below. Buckell in Episode 530 of Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy (above).
Listen to the complete interview with Mercurio D. “I’m just like, ‘Oh my god, this book really, really, really prepared me for all this.'” “I read all these cyberpunk books that I thought were preparing me for the internet, but it turns out that the book that most prepared me for the internet as it stands today was A Fire Upon the Deep and its ‘net of a million lies,’ and its whole ‘groups of people trying to commit genocide because of something they read on the net of a million lies,'” he says. Buckell notes that the novel deftly captures the various ways in which such a system might be abused. The novel imagines a galaxy in which thousands of alien races are able to communicate with each other via short paragraphs of text. The amount of time and effort he put into thinking it through, I really admire that.” “Just plotwise it’s stunning, as well as creatively,” she says. Science fiction author Abby Goldsmith appreciated the book’s carefully crafted story. “Every couple pages there was just some amazing idea where I was like, ‘Oh yeah,’ and I was underlining everything.”Ī Fire Upon the Deep juggles dozens of characters and plotlines without ever becoming confusing. “It has 10 books’ worth of ideas packed into it,” Kirtley says. The central conceit of the book, a universe in which computation becomes easier the farther one travels from the galactic core, creates a setting that encompasses almost every sci-fi concept imaginable. Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy host David Barr Kirtley agrees that A Fire Upon the Deep is an amazing accomplishment.
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