Vernor Vinge
Vernor Steffen Vinge was an American science fiction author and professor. He taught mathematics and computer science at San Diego State University. He was the first wide-scale popularizer of the technological singularity concept and among the first authors to present a fictional "cyberspace". He won the Hugo Award for his novels A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), A Deepness in the Sky (1999), and Rainbows End (2006), and novellas Fast Times at Fairmont High (2001) and The Cookie Monster (2004).
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Waukesha
- Educated at
- Michigan State UniversityUniversity of California, San DiegoSan Diego State University
- Awards
- 🏆 Prometheus Award🏆 Hugo Award for Best Novel🏆 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel🏆 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Stefan E. Warschawski
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"The hours came to minutes, the minutes to seconds. And now each second was as long as all the time before."
"Life is a green madness just now, trying to squeeze the last bit of warmth from the season."
"We can solve many problems thousands of times faster than natural selection. Now, by creating the means to execute those simulations at much higher speeds, we are entering a regime as radically differ…"
"If during the last thousand seconds you have received any High-Beyond-protocol packets from "Arbitration Arts," discard them at once. If they have been processed, then the processing site and all loca…"
"Peregrine Wickwrackscar was flying. A pilgrim with legends that went back almost a thousand years—and not one of them could come near to this!"
"If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn."
Works & Publications
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Timeline
1944
Born
Birth2024
Died
Death
Influenced
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