Vernor Vinge

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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


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 · 154,383 ratings · 8,210 reviews · 123 distinct works • Similar authors
A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones...
4.13 avg rating — 66,849 ratings — published 1992 — 3 editions
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A Deepness in the Sky (Zone...
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Rainbows End
3.77 avg rating — 18,982 ratings — published 2006
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The Peace War (Across Realt...
3.97 avg rating — 7,354 ratings — published 1984 — 29 editions
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The Children of the Sky (Zo...
3.69 avg rating — 7,784 ratings — published 2011 — 11 editions
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Marooned in Realtime (Acros...
4.10 avg rating — 6,099 ratings — published 1986 — 29 editions
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Across Realtime
4.15 avg rating — 2,438 ratings — published 1986 — 11 editions
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True Names: and the Opening...
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“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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Polls

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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