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Vernor Vinge

Born

in Waukesha, Wisconsin, The United States

October 02, 1944

Died

March 20, 2024

Genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Nonfiction

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Vernor Steffen Vinge is a retired San Diego State University Professor of Mathematics, computer scientist, and science fiction author. He is best known for his Hugo Award-winning novels A Fire Upon The Deep (1992), A Deepness in the Sky (1999) and Rainbows End (2006), his Hugo Award-winning novellas Fast Times at Fairmont High (2002) and The Cookie Monster (2004), as well as for his 1993 essay "The Coming Technological Singularity", in which he argues that exponential growth in technology will reach a point beyond which we cannot even speculate about the consequences.

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Average rating: 4.08 · 156,085 ratings · 8,373 reviews · 124 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1) 4.13 avg rating — 67,774 ratings — published 1992 — 90 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2) 4.32 avg rating — 35,480 ratings — published 1999 — 49 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rainbows End 3.77 avg rating — 19,103 ratings — published 2006 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Peace War (Across Realtime, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 7,407 ratings — published 1984 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Children of the Sky (Zones of Thought, #3) 3.69 avg rating — 7,910 ratings — published 2011 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Marooned in Realtime (Across Realtime, #2) 4.10 avg rating — 6,165 ratings — published 1986 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Across Realtime 4.15 avg rating — 2,452 ratings — published 1986 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	True Names: and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier 4.08 avg rating — 1,229 ratings — published 2001 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	True Names by Vernor Vinge, Bob Walters (Illustrator), Marvin Minsky (Afterword) 3.99 avg rating — 1,203 ratings — published 1981 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge 3.98 avg rating — 1,177 ratings — published 2001 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Vernor Vinge (?)

“So much technology, so little talent.”
― Vernor Vinge, Rainbows End

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“I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.”
― Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep

tags: crying, hurting, sorrow

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“Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all - no one's around to write horror stories.”
― Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep

tags: disasters, history, writing-history

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1st Quarter 2026 Long Reads Poll

No Name by Wilkie Collins, 1862, 748 pages

37 votes, 27.4%

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, 1943, 704 pages

26 votes, 19.3%

Alaska by James A. Michener, 1998, 868 pages

21 votes, 15.6%

Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks, 1998, 758 pages

16 votes, 11.9%

A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge, 1992, 613 pages

14 votes, 10.4%

They Were Counted by Miklós Bánffy, 1934, 696 pages

12 votes, 8.9%

On the Niemen by Eliza Orzeszkowa, 1888, 658 pages

9 votes, 6.7%

135 total votes

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