Rainbows End

A Novel With One Foot In The Future

by Vernor Vinge

2006 364 pages eng ★ 3.6 (33 ratings)

From the back cover: World famous poet Robert Gu missed twenty years of progress while he nearly died from Alzheimer's. Now, when he awakens in San Diego, in the year 2025, with his mind and health restored, reality's a shock. Books are just about gone. Computers are old news, replaced by "sma…