A Fire Upon the Deep

Overview:

• Title: A Fire Upon the Deep
• Author: Vernor Vinge
• Year: 2016
• ISBN-10: 9781473211957
• Publisher: Gollancz / Orion
• Price: £9.99
• Pages: xiii+579
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Type: Novel
• Title Reference: A Fire Upon the Deep
• Notes:
  Stated 1st printing of this 2016 edition, by number line. Title page:
  • "A Fire Upon [over] the Deep [over] Vernor Vinge"
  • Gollancz colophon.
  Copyright page:
  • "Text copyright © Vernor Vinge 1991"
  • "Introduction copyright © Ken MacLeod 2016"
  • "This edition first published in Great Britain in 2016 by [over] Gollancz [over] An imprint of the Orion Publishing Group [over] Carmelite House, 50 Victoria Embankment, London EC4Y 0DZ"
  • "An Hachette UK Company"
  • Number line: "1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2"
  • "ISBN 978 1 473 21195 7"
  • "Printed in Great Britain by [over] Clays Ltd, St Ives plc"
  Back cover:
  • "UK £9.99" (no additional pricing)
  • "Illustration by Arthur Haas"
  • "ISBN 978-1-473-21195-7". EAN "00999".
  Spine:
  • "SF Masterworks", "A Fire Upon the Deep" in black; "Vernor Vinge" in orange, all on graduated yellow-to-white ground.
  Month and day of publication from Amazon UK as of 2015-11-27 and confirmed on publisher's website, sfgateway.com, as of 2023-10-09. Introduction is headed "Introduction [over] by Ken MacLeod", and signed "Ken MacLeod, 2015" on the last Roman-numerated page, xi. The map, uncredited in the book, is the same as the map in Zones of Thought. Whereas in Zones of Thought the artist's signature "Elissa Martin 1991" appears in very small print at the far right on the bottom border, for this edition of A Fire Upon the Deep the bottom border has been redrawn further down and the signature obliterated. Map is on the second of three unnumbered pages between pages xi and 1. Novel starts on numbered page 1 and finishes on the last numbered page, 579. Semi-gloss cover.