Title: Rainbows End
Title Record # 181278
Author: Vernor Vinge
Date: 2006-05-00
Type: NOVEL
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
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Author: Vernor Vinge
Date: 2006-05-00
Type: NOVEL
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
Synopsis: A science-fiction thriller set in a place and time as exciting and strange as any far-future world: San Diego, California, 2025. Robert Gu is a recovering Alzheimer’s patient. The world that he remembers was much as we know it today. Now, as he regains his faculties through a cure developed during the years of his near-fatal decline, he discovers that the world has changed and so has his place in it. He was a world-renowned poet. Now he is seventy-five years old, though by a medical miracle he looks much younger, and he’s starting over, for the first time unsure of his poetic gifts. Living with his son’s family, he has no choice but to learn how to cope with a new information age in which the virtual and the real are a seamless continuum, layers of reality built on digital views seen by a single person or millions, depending on your choice. But the consensus reality of the digital world is available only if, like his thirteen-year-old granddaughter Miri, you know how to wear your wireless access—through nodes designed into smart clothes—and to see the digital context—through smart contact lenses. With knowledge comes risk. When Robert begins to re-train at Fairmont High, learning with other older people what is second nature to Miri and other teens at school, he unwittingly becomes part of a wide-ranging conspiracy to use technology as a tool for world domination. In a world where every computer chip has Homeland Security built-in, this conspiracy is something that baffles even the most sophisticated security analysts, including Robert’s son and daughter-in law, two top people in the U.S. military. And even Miri, in her attempts to protect her grandfather, may be entangled in the plot. As Robert becomes more deeply involved in conspiracy, he is shocked to learn of a radical change planned for the UCSD Geisel Library; all the books there, and worldwide, would cease to physically exist. He and his fellow re-trainees feel compelled to join protests against the change. With forces around the world converging on San Diego, both the conspiracy and the protest climax in a spectacular moment as unique and satisfying as it is unexpected.
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Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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Rainbows End | 2006-05-00 | Vernor Vinge | Tor | 978-0-312-85684-7 | $25.95?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
364 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | Stephan Martiniere | ![]() |
Rainbows End | 2006-05-00 | Vernor Vinge | Tor / SFBC | 1208611 | $13.99?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
364 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | Stephan Martiniere | |
Rainbows End | 2007-04-00 | Vernor Vinge | Tor | 0-812-53636-3 | $7.99?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
381 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | Stephan Martiniere | ![]() |
Rainbows End | 2007-04-03 | Vernor Vinge | Tor | 978-1-4299-9189-6 | $8.99?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
novel | |||
Rainbows end | 2007-05-00 | Vernor Vinge | Robert Laffont (Ailleurs et demain) | 978-2-221-10846-8 | €23.00?€: Euro. ISO code: EUR |
453 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | Jackie Paternoster | |
Rainbows End | 2007-08-00 | Vernor Vinge | Tor / Pan Macmillan UK | 0-330-45194-4 | £6.99?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP |
381 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | Stephan Martiniere | |
Rainbows End | 2007-12-19 | Vernor Vinge | Macmillan Audio | digital audio download?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts. |
novel | Stephan Martiniere | ![]() |
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A szivárvány tövében | 2010-00-00 | Vernor Vinge | Metropolis Media ( Galaktika Fantasztikus Könyvek?Galaktika Fantasztikus Konyvek ) |
978-963-9828-44-5 | Ft 3,990?Ft: Hungarian forint. ISO code: HUF |
486+ [18] |
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | Sallai Péter | ![]() |
Urania #1561 | 2010-08-00 | ed. Giuseppe Lippi | Mondadori | 1561 | €4.20?€: Euro. ISO code: EUR |
384 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
mag | Franco Brambilla | |
Rainbows end | 2011-04-00 | Vernor Vinge | Le Livre de Poche (Le Livre de Poche - Science Fiction #32174) | 978-2-253-15993-3 | 640 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | Manchu | ||
Rainbows End | 2011-12-12 | Vernor Vinge | Tor UK | 978-1-4472-1747-3 | £3.99?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
novel | |||
La Capătul curcubeului?La Capatul curcubeului |
2012-09-25 | Vernor Vinge | Editura Nemira (Nautilus) | 978-606-579-388-0 | Lei 10?Lei: Romanian leu. ISO codes: ROK in 1947-1952, ROL in 1952-2005, RON since 2005 |
616 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | ||
Rainbows End | 2013-08-15 | Vernor Vinge | Macmillan UK | 978-1-4472-4972-6 | £14.99?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP |
400 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | ||
Das Ende des Regenbogens | 2016-10-00 | Vernor Vinge | Cross Cult | 978-3-95981-144-6 | €14.00?€: Euro. ISO code: EUR |
576 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | Martin Frei | ![]() |
Across Real Time Series & More | 2024-07-17 | Vernor Vinge | MotionAudiobooks | $42.99?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
audio MP3 DVD?DVD with mp3-encoded audio tracks |
omni | ![]() |
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Rainbows End | date unknown | Vernor Vinge | Tor | 0-812-53636-3 | $7.99?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
381 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | Stephan Martiniere | ![]() |
Rainbows End | date unknown | Vernor Vinge | Tor | 0-812-53636-3 | $7.99?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
381 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | Stephan Martiniere | ![]() |
Rainbows End | date unknown | Vernor Vinge | Tor | 978-0-8125-3636-2 | $8.99?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
381 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | Stephan Martiniere | ![]() |
Reviews
- Review by Damien Broderick (2006) in Locus, #543 April 2006
- Review by Nick Gevers (2006) in Locus, #544 May 2006
- Review by Paul Raven (2006) in Interzone, June 2006
- Review by Russell Letson (2006) in Locus, #545 June 2006
- Review by Colin Harvey (2006) in Strange Horizons, 5 June 2006
- Review by Graham Sleight (2006) in The New York Review of Science Fiction, July 2006
- Review by Thomas A. Easton [as by Tom Easton] (2006) in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, July-August 2006
- Review by Gary S. Dalkin [as by Gary Dalkin] (2006) in Vector 249
- Review by Anne K. G. Murphy (2007) in Subterranean Online, Summer 2007
- Review by Andy Tomaswick (2011) in StarShipSofa, No 211