Rainbows End

Copyright © 2006 by Vernor Vinge

Dedication

To the Net-based cognitive tools that are changing our lives -- Wikipedia, Google, and the others of their kind, now and in the future.

Acknowledgments

I am grateful for the advice and help of: Jeff Allen, David Baxter, Ethan Bier, John Carroll, Randy Carver, Steven Cherry, Connie Fleenor, Robert Fleming, Peter Flynn, Mike Gannis, Harry Goldstein, Thomas Goodey, Barbara Gordon, Judith Greengard, Dipak Gupta, Patricia Hartman, Patrick Hillmeyer, Cherie Kushner, Sifang Lu, Sara Baase Mayers, Keith Mayers, Sean Peisert, William Rupp, Peter H. Salus, Mary Q. Smith, Charles Vestal, Joan D. Vinge, Gabriele Wienhausen, and William F. Wu.

I am very grateful to James Frenkel for the wonderful job of editing he has done with this book. Jim and Tor Books have been very patient with me in the long process of creating Rainbows End.

Table of Contents:

  1. CHAPTER 00: Dumb Luck and Smart Thinking
  2. CHAPTER 01: Mr. Rabbit visits Barcelona
  3. CHAPTER 02: The Return
  4. CHAPTER 03: A Minefield Made in Heaven
  5. CHAPTER 04: An Excellent Affiliance
  6. CHAPTER 05: Dr. Xiang's SHE
  7. CHAPTER 06: So Much Technology, So Little Talent
  8. CHAPTER 07: The Ezra Pound Incident
  9. CHAPTER 08: No User-Serviceable Parts Within
  10. CHAPTER 09: Carrot Greens
  11. CHAPTER 10: An Excellent Thesis Topic
  12. CHAPTER 11: Introduction to the Librareome Project
  13. CHAPTER 12: Guardians of the Past, Handmaidens of the Future
  14. CHAPTER 13: The Miri Gang Is Born
  15. CHAPTER 14: The Mysterious Stranger
  16. CHAPTER 15: When Metaphors Are Real
  17. CHAPTER 16: The Front Bathroom Incident
  18. CHAPTER 17: Alfred Volunteers
  19. CHAPTER 18: The Myasthenic Spelunker Society
  20. CHAPTER 19: Failure is an Option
  21. CHAPTER 20: The Officer of the Watch
  22. CHAPTER 21: When Belief Circles Collide
  23. CHAPTER 22: The Bicycle Attack
  24. CHAPTER 23: In the Cathedral
  25. CHAPTER 24: The Library Chooses
  26. CHAPTER 25: You Can't Ask Alice Anymore
  27. CHAPTER 26: How-to-Survive-the-Next-Thirty-Minutes.pdf
  28. CHAPTER 27: The Revocation Attack
  29. CHAPTER 28: The Animal Model?
  30. CHAPTER 29: Dr. Xiang Takes Charge
  31. CHAPTER 30: When the Network Stops
  32. CHAPTER 31: Bob Contemplates Nuclear Carpet-Bombing
  33. CHAPTER 32: The Minimum Sufficient Response
  34. CHAPTER 33: Freedom on a Very Long Leash
  35. CHAPTER 34: The British Museum and the British Library
  36. CHAPTER 35: The Missing Apostrophe
  37. EPILOG

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-Loren