Had previously read "A Fire Upon the Deep"...

I got my copy of "Rainbow's End - A Novel with One Foot in the Future" (by Vernor Vinge), from a friend, who enjoys Science Fiction a bit more than I usually do. I had previously read A Fire Upon the Deep and have it as one of my favorite Science Fiction book of all times. Others that are on that list, are Snow Crash and The Diamond Age: or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson, and of course, Neuromancer by William Gibson.

• The Diamond Age: or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, by Neal Stephenson
• [ Google Books | ISFDB.org | wikipedia ] - the 1995 Winner, Hugo Award for Best Novel and was nominated for Nebula Award for Best Novel
• "The Diamond Age or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is a postcyberpunk novel by Neal Stephenson. It is a bildungsroman focused on a young girl named Nell, and set in a world in which nanotechnology affects all aspects of life. Some main themes include: education, social class, cultural tribalism, and the nature of artificial intelligence." wikipedia
• Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson
• [ Google Books | wikipedia ] - "Snow Crash is Neal Stephenson's third novel, published in 1992. It follows in the footsteps of cyberpunk novels by such authors as William Gibson and Rudy Rucker, but differs from its predecessors in that it includes much satire and black humor. "
  
• A Fire Upon the Deep, by Vernor Vinge
• [ Google Books | ISFDB.org | wikipedia ] - "A Fire Upon the Deep (1992) is a science fiction novel written by Vernor Vinge, an award-winning space opera about superhuman intelligences, well-developed aliens, variable physics, space battles, love, betrayal, genocide, and Usenet. A Fire Upon the Deep won the Hugo Award in 1993 (tied with Doomsday Book by Connie Willis)." wikipedia.
• Rainbow's End - A Novel with One Foot in the Future, by Vernor Vinge
• [ Google Books | Wikipedia ] - "The novel introduces us to Robert Gu, a man slowly recovering from Alzheimer's disease thanks to advances in medical technology. As his faculties return, Robert (who always has been slightly technophobic) must adapt to a very different world, where almost every object is networked and mediated-reality technology is commonplace. Robert, formerly a world-renowned poet but with a notoriously mean-spirited personality, must also learn how to change and how to rebuild relationships with his estranged family. At the same time, Robert and his granddaughter Miri are drawn into a complex plot involving a traitorous intelligence officer, an intellect of frightening (and possibly superhuman) competence hiding behind an avatar of an anthropomorphic rabbit, and ominous new mind control technology with profound implications." Wikipedia
  
• Neuromancer, by William Gibson
  
• [ Google Books | ISFDB.org | wikipedia] - "Neuromancer is considered "the archetypal cyberpunk work", and its winning the Hugo, Nebula, and Dick Awards legitimized cyberpunk as a mainstream branch of science fiction literature." wikipedia.
• "William Ford Gibson (born 1948-03-17) is an American-Canadian^[16] writer who has been called the "noir prophet" of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction.^[17] In 1982, Gibson coined the term cyberspace and popularized the concept in his debut novel, Neuromancer (1984)." wikipedia.