I just finished re-reading Fire Upon the Deep and Deepness In the Sky, and finally got around to reading Children of the Sky.
Fire Upon the Deep floored me when I first read it ages ago. There were at least a dozen ideas in there that someone could have written a whole SF novel about, but having them all in one place and written so well was amazing.
I really liked Deepness and Children, but the threads they picked up from Fire were (to me) the less interesting ones. I kept hoping he’d write more books set in the Beyond rather than in the Slow Zone. Sadly, it looks like he won’t now.
