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A Fire Upon the Deep is a science fiction novel by American writer Vernor Vinge, a space opera involving superhuman intelligences, aliens, variable physics, space battles, love, betrayal, genocide, and a conversation medium resembling Usenet.
A Fire Upon the Deep won the Hugo Award in 1993 ( tied with Doomsday Book by Connie Willis ).
Vinge's novel, A Deepness in the Sky ( 1999 ), is a prequel to A Fire Upon the Deep set 20, 000 years earlier and featuring Pham Nuwen.
Vinge's Children of the Sky, " a near-term sequel to A Fire Upon the Deep ", set ten years later, was released in October 2011.
Jo Walton wrote: " Any one of the ideas in A Fire Upon the Deep would have kept an ordinary writer going for years.
... A Fire Upon the Deep remains a favourite and a delight to re-read, absorbing even when I know exactly what ’ s coming.
* A Fire Upon the Deep at Worlds Without End
Alastair Reynolds's Revelation Space series, Peter F. Hamilton's Void, Night's Dawn and Pandora's Star series, and Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky are newer examples of this genre.
The poem was referenced in Vernor Vinge's hard science fiction novel A Fire Upon the Deep.
* Laying Fire Upon Apep
The small size of Usenet in its youthful days, and Spencer's early involvement, made him a well-recognised participant ; this is commemorated in Vernor Vinge's 1992 novel A Fire Upon the Deep.
* Vernor Vinge-A Fire Upon the Deep
* Peregrin Wrickwrackrum, an A Fire Upon the Deep character
# " Upon The Hearth The Fire Is Red ".
* In A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge, the destruction of a human civilization is preceded by an RKV assault.
# Upon a Wheel of Fire
Published in 1999, the novel is a loose prequel ( set twenty thousand years earlier ) to his earlier novel A Fire Upon the Deep ( 1992 ).
The story of that quest unfolds as part of the back-story in A Fire Upon the Deep.
Only one concrete connection links A Deepness in the Sky with A Fire Upon the Deep: the character of Pham Nuwen, the " Programmer-at-Arms ", who appears in both books.
Upon reaching Dün Mir, the warrior characters must go through the Gauntlet, a labyrinth full of monsters, to prove their skills to the Warlord Horrendous and gain the rank of a " Fire Knight ".
* Dippel, John V. H. Bound Upon a Wheel of Fire: Why so many German Jews made the tragic decision to remain in Nazi Germany ( 1996 )
Upon graduating from UCLA, Griffin was drafted 11th overall in the 2004 MLS SuperDraft by the Fire.
Upon graduating, Stephenson was drafted 27th overall in the 2004 MLS SuperDraft by the Chicago Fire.
Upon graduating, Pickens was drafted 19th overall in the 2004 MLS SuperDraft by the Fire.

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International stars have included Laura Pausini, Madonna, Janet Jackson, Amália Rodrigues, Björk, Abdel Halim Hafez, Dave Matthews Band, Lara Fabian, Willy DeVille, Amália Rodrigues, Lou Reed, Josephine Baker, Annie Cordy, Majida El Roumi, Linda de Suza, The Animals, Petula Clark, Bülent Ersoy, Can, Ewa Demarczyk, Celine Dion, Cher, Deep Purple, Diana Ross & The Supremes, Sammy Davis Jr., Diana Krall, Dir En Grey, The Doors, Elis Regina, Eric Burdon, War, Fairuz, Dave Gahan, Jeff Buckley, Robert Plant & The Strange Sensation, Jimi Hendrix, Judy Garland, Kraftwerk, Nana Mouskouri, Haris Alexiou, Olivera Vuco, Mika, Wings, Paul McCartney, Oliver Dragojevic, Paul Simon, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, Sarit Hadad, Bob Dylan, Black Sabbath, PJ Harvey, Tori Amos, Lady Gaga, The Corrs, Lola Beltrán, Luciano Pavarotti, Mariza, Maysa, Liza Minnelli, Morrissey, The Shadows, My Bloody Valentine, Nelly Furtado, New Order, Nick Cave, Nina Simone, Patti Smith, Phil Collins, Pet Shop Boys, Roger Hodgson, Primal Scream, Stevie Nicks, KISS, Sabah, Scorpions, Simple Minds, Frank Sinatra, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Tereza Kesovija, The Beatles, The Cure, The Jackson 5, Barry Manilow, The Mars Volta, Stephen Stills, Yolandita Monge, Otis Redding, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Rolling Stones, Tin Machine, Mika, Björk, Umm Kulthum, Zohar Argov, Dionne Warwick, Violetta Villas, The Velvet Underground, Leon Redbone, Leonard Cohen, Manu Dibango, Katy Perry, Christina Aguilera, Sid Vicious, James Brown, Alla Pugacheva, Lili Ivanova, Queens of the Stone Age, Arctic Monkeys, Miles Kane and Arcade Fire, Zdravko Čolić & Tangerine Dream among many others.
** Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: episode # 563, " Field of Fire "
The community is named after the natural gap, called Deep Gap, at Fire Scale Mountain, where the Blue Ridge Parkway crosses over US 421.
In the Field of Fire season 7 episode, Ezri Dax calls upon her memories of Joran in order to catch a murderer who has killed several people on the Deep Space Nine.
Tycobrahe Sound Company combined the touring systems of Black Oak Arkansas, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Earth Wind and Fire, and Rare Earth ( each manufactured by Tycobrahe ), plus 16-ft bass horns from Phoenix Sound and several folded bass horns from Flag Systems.
Siddig's roles have often called for him to act out many different accents: a Received Pronunciation accent ( Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ), a Cockney accent ( Reign Of Fire ), and an Algerian accent ( Spooks ), among others.
Attracting over 200, 000 fans, Black Sabbath appeared alongside other ' 70s rock giants, such as Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Deep Purple, Earth, Wind & Fire and The Eagles.
*" Into the Fire ", a song by Deep Purple from their 1970 album In Rock
: Containing 12 issues: Fire Over England, Desert Fox, Danger in the Deep, The Desert of Death, The Savage Sky, The Death or Glory Mob, Zero Smasher, Island of Death, Sea Strike, Assassin !, They Flew by Night, Colonel Scarface.

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Using radios outside their intended market can be dangerous, as well as illegal as frequencies used by Citizen's Band radios from other countries may operate on frequencies close to, or used by, emergency services ( For example, the Indonesian service around 142 MHz operates on frequencies allocated to a Public Safety network shared with Police, Fire and EMS services in Ontario, Canada ).
The department also has shared use of the a mass decontamination unit with the Kearny and Harrison Fire Departments.
It is believed to be the only shared building in the State of Ohio to house a City Police Department and a Township Fire Department ..
In 2000, she won an International Achievement award and in 2004, won Pop Album of the Year for Afterglow and again shared the Songwriter of the Year award with Pierre Marchand for the singles " Fallen ", " World on Fire ", and " Stupid.
At a later point it shared space with the Katy Fire Department.
iTunes uses Bonjour to find shared music, iPhoto to find shared photos, iChat, Adobe Systems Creative Suite 3, Proteus, Adium, Fire, Pidgin, Skype, Vine Server, and Elgato EyeTV to share local recordings with multiple clients, the Gizmo5 to find other users on the local network, TiVo Desktop to find digital video recorders and shared-media libraries, SubEthaEdit and e to find document collaborators, Contactizer to find and share contacts, tasks, and events information, and Things & OmniFocus to synchronize projects and tasks across the Mac desktop and the iPad, iPhone or iPod touch.
The award was created in tribute to the first Golden Wagon honoree, Tony Randall, and is given to a member of the entertainment industry who embodies the same love of Fire Island, independent spirit, and community service that Randall shared.
The engines range in South America from a 1. 3 Fire 16 valve, a new 1. 4 Fire 8 valve with 80 HP ( the same of the latest Fiat Punto, and a 1. 8 GM Powertrain 8 valve with 112 HP, shared with the Chevrolet Corsa ).
Deepa Mehta's 1996 film Fire, which depicts a romantic relationship between two Hindu women, was informally banned for " religious insensitivity " after Hindu Nationalists attacked cinemas where it was being screened on the grounds that it denigrated Indian culture, not on the grounds of homophobia per se, a position shared and confirmed by feminist Madhu Kishwar.
Water focuses mainly on drawing cards, sending cards to hand, unblockable creatures, seeing of hand and shields, searching through deck, changing shields and unattackable creatures ( shared with Fire Civilization ).
Fire has a lot of Dragon support, as well as Speed Attacker, Power Attacker ( shared with Nature ), attacking if able, power-limited creature destruction, blocker and mana destruction, putting shields into graveyard, untapping after wining battles, unattackable creatures ( shared with Water ), breaking extra shields, taking extra turns, searching and reducing the costs of cross gears effects.
Busch tied for most shutouts in the league ( 10 ), while also tying a Fire single season shutout record shared with Matt Pickens for his 10 shutouts in 2007.
The most advanced Soviet tank, up until the end of the Cold War, was the T-80U, which shared similar characteristics with the M1A1 ( Turbine engine, advanced Fire Control Systems, strong armour, and firepower )
Originally a single stand-alone story, the novel is now the first of an open-ended series with over twenty-six works of all kinds including e-published only works ( e-books ) of which twelve are standard trade printed books ( Three of eighteen of the bi-monthly Gazettes, and counting ) are the printed canonical Grantville Gazettes ( I, II, and III, the first of which is almost entirely longer fiction Flint couldn't put in the already lengthy Ring of Fire shared universe collection, the de facto first sequel antedating collaborative work on 1633, and of which two have been best sellers ) published in print and an additional rapidly growing number related Grantville Gazettes e-books or e-zines ( not in print ).
Emergency service headquarters ( which is shared with Toronto Fire Services, but both services operate independently ) is located at 4330 Dufferin Street in Toronto.
They have shared the stage with other performers such as The Jacksons, Lionel Richie, The Commodores, Marvin Gaye, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Natalie Cole, The Temptations, The Four Tops, The Spinners, Earth, Wind & Fire, New Edition, The Stylistics, Mick Jagger and others.
The inhabitants of Fire frequently raid Water by traveling there in hot air balloons through the planets ' shared atmosphere.
Life on Water seems to have been meant to be full of unmarred beauty and contentment, but this is shattered by frequent war parties from Fire, which arrive via hot air balloons through the planets ' shared atmosphere.
Life on Water seems to have been meant to be full of unmarred beauty and contentment, but this is shattered by frequent war parties from Fire, which arrive via hot air balloons through the planets ' shared atmosphere.
The Adelaide Lightning, Sydney Uni Flames, Townsville Fire and West Coast Waves are the only current teams to play sharing the market with an NBL team ( although the Canberra Capitals and Bulleen Boomers shared a market with the Canberra Cannons and South Dragons, respectively, before the teams both became defunct ).

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