It’s Not Called the Net of a Million Lies for Nothing

Rereading a 1995 article of mine reminded me of the late Vernor Vinge’s then-recent A Fire Upon the Deep (one of my favorite science fiction books). Referring to an interstellar communications network seemingly modeled on today’s Internet, the characters say, like it’s a proverb: “It’s not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.”