The Children of the Sky by Vernor Vinge

[mjlayman]

This is the third and last book of Vinge's ZONES OF THOUGHT SERIES and I'd like to talk about the series part of it first. The first, A Fire Upon the Deep, was published in 1992; the second, A Deepness in the Sky, was published in 1999; and The Children of the Sky was published in 2011. My problem with these in this order is that the ending of

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[davidgoldfarb]

Is it the last of the series? It certainly felt to me like there needs to be at least one more.

[mjlayman]

The information from the SFBC was that it was the last. I agree that a fourth might finish it off, but then the second really would seem odd.

[soon_lee]

I read it and enjoyed it well enough, but it felt like volume two of a trilogy.

[mjlayman]

Yeah, that's what David said. Did you read the first two before this one? I did, and while I think a fourth might be better, I'm not sure it would really make the series work.

[soon_lee]

Yes, I've read the other two & enjoyed them more than this one.

With this one, it's feels like it has turned into an open-ended series; the first two read like stand-alone novels in the same universe. And I am not entirely sure this is a good thing.

[mjlayman]

Yes, that makes a lot of sense.