The realtime/peace war novels and the Fire trilogy are the essentials imo. Weirdly, they do have “The collected works of Vernor Vinge”, which has all his shorter stories from between 1966 and 2006, except Grimm’s Story and True Names. It’s quite neat, there are small annotations from Vinge of the story behind the story.
It does seem bizare to keep Children and not Fire Upon and Deepness in the Sky. Especially given it’s no where near as good as the other two.
Fortunately I have digital copies of them all, but I always check the V section of second hand book shops just in case.
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