I’m still a fan

Of the three Vinge nov­els I’ve read, I think this is my third favorite, which of course sounds as though it was dis­ap­point­ing. It was not. With intrigu­ing ideas, well-thought-out sce­nar­ios, mul­ti­di­men­sion­al char­ac­ters and keen pac­ing, I’d rec­om­mend *The Peace War* to any­one I liked. 

Yet, some of the themes were cer­tain­ly famil­iar, the char­ac­ters were per­haps not all as fleshed out as they could have been, and nowhere did the clever ideas make my mind reel from forced par­a­digm shift the way that *[A Fire Upon The Deep]([canonical-url:2005/03/27/what-sci-fi-oughtta-be])* or *[A Deep­ness in The Sky]([canonical-url:2005/09/21/spiders-no-not-mars])* did.

Thumbs up, but not as excit­ed­ly as for the others.