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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 · 151,895 ratings · 7,990 reviews · 122 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1) 4.14 avg rating — 65,548 ratings — published 1992 — 86 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 — 34,727 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 — 18,795 ratings — published 2006 — 2 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 — 7,252 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) 3.68 avg rating — 7,630 ratings — published 2011 — 22 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 — 6,007 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 — 2,424 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 — 1,205 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 — 1,170 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 3.97 avg rating — 1,157 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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June 2024 New School Classics Poll

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, 1931, 418 pages

54 votes, 22.5%

Seize the Day by Saul Bellow, 1957, 114 pages

45 votes, 18.8%

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1924, 226 pages

39 votes, 16.3%

High-Rise by J.G. Ballard, 1975, 208 pages

39 votes, 16.3%

My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk, 1998, 417 pages

31 votes, 12.9%

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

17 votes, 7.1%

Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun, 1917, 435 pages

15 votes, 6.3%

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