The Zones of Thought series by Vernor Vinge, and A Deepness in the Sky in particular.
If you check the series out, and I highly recommend you do, read it in order. Which would mean starting with A Fire Upon the Deep, which is excellent.
If you check the series out, and I highly recommend you do, read it in order. Which would mean starting with A Fire Upon the Deep, which is excellent.
This might be considered a spoiler: https://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/TrueNames.Afterword...