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  <name><![CDATA[Vernor Vinge]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[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 &lt;i&gt;[book:A Fire Upon The Deep|77711]&lt;/i&gt; (1992), &lt;i&gt;[book:A Deepness in the Sky|226004]&lt;/i&gt; (1999) and &lt;i&gt;[book:Rainbows End|102439]&lt;/i&gt; (2006), his Hugo Award-winning novellas &lt;i&gt;[book:Fast Times at Fairmont High|5393037]&lt;/i&gt; (2002) and &lt;i&gt;The Cookie Monster&lt;/i&gt; (2004), as well as for his 1993 essay &lt;a href=&quot;http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/vinge/misc/singularity.html&quot;&gt;&quot;The Coming Technological Singularity&quot;&lt;/a&gt;, in which he argues that exponential growth in technology will reach a point beyond which we cannot even speculate about the consequences.]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Waukesha, Wisconsin</hometown>  <born_at>10/02/1944</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[A Fire Upon The Deep]]></title>
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  <published>1992</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[A Deepness in the Sky]]></title>
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  <published>1999</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Rainbows End]]></title>
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  <published>2006</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Marooned in Realtime]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Vernor Vinge]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.95</average_rating>
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  <published>1986</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Peace War]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Vernor Vinge]]></name>
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  <published>1984</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Across Realtime]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Vernor Vinge]]></name>
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  <published>1991</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[True Names: and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Vernor Vinge]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[James Frenkel]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.95</average_rating>
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  <published>2001</published>  
  
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        <book id="167843">
  <title><![CDATA[The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge]]></title>
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  <published>2001</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Tatja Grimm's World]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Vernor Vinge]]></name>
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  <average_rating>2.99</average_rating>
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  <published>1987</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Witling]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Vernor Vinge]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.16</average_rating>
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  <published>1976</published>  
  
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