Biography
Born in Waukesha, Wisconsin and raised in Central Michigan, science fiction writer Vernor Vinge is the son of geographers. Fascinated by science and particularly computers from an early age, he has a Ph.D. in computer science, and taught mathematics and computer science at San Diego State University for thirty years.
He has won Hugo Awards for his novels A Fire Upon the Deep (1992) and A Deepness in the Sky (1999), and for the novella "Fast Times at Fairmont High" (2001). Known for his rigorous hard-science approach to his SF, he became an iconic figure among cybernetic scientists with the publication in 1981 of his novella "True Names," which is considered a seminal, visionary work of Internet fiction.
He has also gained a great deal of attention both here and abroad for his theory of the coming machine intelligence Singularity. Sought widely as a speaker to both business and scientific groups, he lives in San Diego, California.
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- Epic Review - A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge (4/5 stars)
Then a co-worker of mine starting talking about this wonderful book he just finished and I was like hey that sounds like this Vernor Vinge book I wanted to read. So he lent it to me and I read it. It is an interesting and complex book, ... - Check Out The Witling for $4.79
2) People who are already fans of Vernor Vinge and who would like to read one of his early works to see how he has grown as a writer. There are glimmers, here and there, of the ideas that Vinge would later play with at length. ... - A Fire Upon the Deep, by Vernor Vinge « John's Blog
A Fire Upon the Deep, by Vernor Vinge. Fantastic,fantastic book. The first really original science fiction that I've read in some time. At least two ideas in it that I've never seen anywhere else. The ending is a bit of a jumble, ... - Book Review: 'Rainbows End' by Vernor Vinge | TeleRead: Bring the ...
The recent post about book scanners that can process 3000 pages per minute reminded me (and at least one other person) of the Vernor Vinge novel Rainbows End. - The bookcase review, part seven | SciFiNow
In part three, we covered The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein, The Collected Stories Of Vernor Vinge by Vernor Vinge, Stealing Light by Gary Gibson, The Forest Of Hands And Teeth by Carrie Ryan, the Star Trek Corps Of ... - vernor vinge on the return of …
vernor vinge on the return of async journalism #scifi @torbooks http://amzn.com/k/137I3RXWOM2AL #Kindle. Related posts: @torbooks — only 2 reviews on… was Fred Pohl the greatest #sc… Fred Pohl gave first publicati… - Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Blog posts / The Net of a ...
What I love about Vernor Vinge is that his aliens are so extremely well developed and thought-out. Plus the stories are smart. Both "A Deepness in the Sky" and "A Fire Upon the Deep" had me riveted until their ends. ... - here come the AIs Vernor Vinge…
here come the AIs Vernor Vinge #scifi http://amzn.com/k/3QX85LCUJPTTL #Kindle. Related posts: great character description ….. CCTV Medusa mode … brilliant… +2 to Stross for JFC Full… - Singularity Podcast: Vernor Vinge and Cory Doctorow on NPR
This is a short 6 min singularity podcast where Rick Kleffel of NPR interviews both Vernor Vinge and Cory Doctorow on the singularity. It was recorded in 2006 but is still very much relevant and worth hearing. ... - Stephen Hawking on the Possibility of Quantum ET's (A Galaxy 'Most ...
Vernor Vinge, Hugo Award-winning author of A Fire Upon the Deep and Rainbows End,argues that exponential growth in technology will reach a point beyond which we cannot even speculate. "We are on the edge of change comparable to the rise ...
