Le site Tor.com publie gratuitement un extrait en langue anglaise du livre Children of The Sky de Vernor Vinge, suite de son A Fire Upon The Deep qui a remporté le prix Hugo. 

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Citation:

Two Years After the Battle on Starship Hill  CHAPTER 00  How do you get the attention of the richest businessperson in the world?  Vendacious had spent all his well-remembered life sucking up to royalty. He had never dreamed he would fall so low as to need a common merchant, but here he was with his only remaining servant, trying to find a street address in East Home’s factory district.  This latest street was even narrower than the one they had left. Surely the world’s richest would never come here!

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