Vernor Vinge

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Vernor Vinge
Fast Times at Fairmont High (2001)
Notable awardsHugo Awards:
  Best Novel: 1993, 2000, 2007;
  Best Novella: 2003, 2005
Prometheus Awards:
  1987, 2000, 2004, 2007, 2014 Special Award for Lifetime Achievement
Spouse
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(m. 1972; div. 1979)​

Vernor Steffen Vinge (

Fast Times at Fairmont High (2001) and The Cookie Monster
(2004).

Writing career

Vinge published his first short story, "Apartness", in the June 1965 issue of the British magazine

Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California, San Diego, under the supervision of Stefan E. Warschawski.[5] His second novel, The Witling, was published in 1976.[6]

Vinge came to prominence in 1981 with his novella

force fields called 'bobbles'. These books built Vinge's reputation as an author who would explore ideas to their logical conclusions in particularly inventive ways. Both books were nominated for the Hugo Award, but lost to novels by William Gibson and Orson Scott Card.[7][8]

Vinge won the Hugo Award (tying for Best Novel with Doomsday Book by Connie Willis) with his 1992 novel, A Fire Upon the Deep.[9] A Deepness in the Sky (1999) was a prequel to Fire, following competing groups of humans in The Slow Zone as they struggle over who has the rights to exploit a technologically emerging alien culture. Deepness won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2000.[10]

His novellas

Fast Times at Fairmont High and The Cookie Monster also won Hugo Awards in 2002 and 2004, respectively.[11]

Vinge's 2006 novel

The Children of the Sky, a sequel to A Fire Upon the Deep set approximately 10 years following the end of A Fire Upon the Deep.[13][14]

Vinge retired in 2000 from teaching at

Award for the Advancement of Free Software for most of the years between 1999 and his death in 2024.[15]

Personal life

His former wife, Joan D. Vinge, is also a science fiction author. They were married from 1972 to 1979.[16]

Vernor Vinge died in

La Jolla, California on March 20, 2024, at the age of 79. He had been suffering from Parkinson's disease.[17][18]

Bibliography

Novels

Realtime/Bobble series

Zones of Thought series

Standalone novels

Collections

Essays

  • "The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era" (1993),[2] Whole Earth Review[22]
  • "2020 Computing: The creativity machine" (2006), Nature[23]
  • "The Disaster Stack" (2017) Chasing Shadows[24]

Uncollected short fiction

  • "A Dry Martini" (The 60th World Science Fiction Convention ConJosé Restaurant Guide, page 60)[25]
  • "
    Analog Science Fiction
    , October 2003) (winner 2004 Hugo Award for Best Novella)
  • "Synthetic Serendipity", IEEE Spectrum Online, June 30, 2004[26]
  • "A Preliminary Assessment of the Drake Equation, Being an Excerpt from the Memoirs of Star Captain Y.-T. Lee" (2010) (Gateways: Original New Stories Inspired by Frederik Pohl, 2010)
  • "BFF's first adventure", (originally published in Nature, Vol 518 No 7540 "Futures")[27]
  • "Legale", (originally published in Nature, Vol 548 No 7666 "Futures")[28]

References

  1. ^ a b "Vinge, Vernor", The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, March 22, 2024
  2. ^ a b Vinge, Vernor (March 1993). "The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era". San Diego State University. Archived from the original on May 8, 2017. Retrieved July 17, 2021.
  3. ^
    doi:10.1145/63526.315953
    .
  4. ^ "Summary bibliography, Internet Speculative Fiction Database". Archived from the original on May 23, 2022. Retrieved April 29, 2022.
  5. ^ Vernor Vinge at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. ^ Vinge, Vernor (1976). The witling. Daw Books = sf. DAW Books Inc, Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress). New York: DAW Books. Archived from the original on October 30, 2023. Retrieved January 15, 2019.
  7. ^ a b "1985 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Archived from the original on November 6, 2018. Retrieved August 12, 2010.
  8. ^ a b "1987 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Archived from the original on July 9, 2017. Retrieved August 12, 2010.
  9. ^ a b c "1993 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Archived from the original on July 12, 2021. Retrieved August 12, 2010.
  10. ^ a b c d "2000 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Archived from the original on October 6, 2009. Retrieved August 12, 2010.
  11. ^ a b "Vernor Vinge Awards". sfadb.com. Retrieved March 26, 2024.
  12. ^ a b c "2007 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Archived from the original on October 17, 2017. Retrieved August 12, 2010.
  13. ^ Interview with Vernor Vinge Archived April 19, 2021, at the Wayback Machine, Norwescon website, October 12, 2009.
  14. ^ "Vernor Vinge's sequel to A Fire Upon The Deep coming in October!". December 2010. Archived from the original on September 12, 2015. Retrieved January 18, 2011.
  15. ConJosé (the 2002 Worldcon). Archived
    from the original on January 19, 2010. Retrieved August 12, 2010.
  16. ISBN 9781135923747
  17. ^ "Vernor Vinge (1944–2024)". Locus Online. March 22, 2024. Retrieved March 23, 2024.
  18. ^ Brin, David (March 21, 2024). "Vernor Vinge – the Man with Lamps on His Brows". Contrary Brin. Archived from the original on March 21, 2024. Retrieved March 21, 2024.
  19. ^ "1992 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Archived from the original on July 12, 2021. Retrieved August 12, 2010.
  20. ^ "1999 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Archived from the original on August 4, 2009. Retrieved August 12, 2010.
  21. PMID 11048698
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  22. Bibcode:1993vise.nasa...11V
    .
  23. S2CID 4397608
    .
  24. ISBN 9780765382580
    .
  25. ^ "Vernor Vinge reading "A Dry Martini", recorded live at Penguicon 6.0". April 20, 2008. Archived from the original on August 31, 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  26. ^ Vinge, Vernor (June 30, 2004). "Synthetic Serendipity". IEEE Spectrum. Archived from the original on August 12, 2020. Retrieved February 2, 2020.
  27. doi:10.1038/518568a
    .
  28. doi:10.1038/548254a
    .

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