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Vernor Vinge

(Vernor Steffen Vinge)

(1944 - 2024)

Vernor Vinge won five Hugo Awards. Known for his rigorous hard-science approach to his science fiction, he became an iconic figure among cybernetic scientists with the publication in 1981 of his novella "True Names," which is considered a seminal, visionary work of Internet fiction.

Genres: Science Fiction

Series

Across Real Time
1. The Peace War (1984)
2. Marooned in Realtime (1986)

Zones of Thought
   1. A Fire upon the Deep (1992)
   2. A Deepness in the Sky (1999)
   3. The Children of the Sky (2011)
   4. After the Battle on Starship Hill (2011)

Novels

   Grimm's World (1969)
     aka Tatja Grimm's World
   The Witling (1976)
   Rainbows End (2006)

Collections

   True Names and Other Dangers (1981)
   Threats and Other Promises (1988)
   The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge (2001)

Novellas and Short Stories

Fast Times at Fairmont High (2016)

Non fiction show

Vernor Vinge recommends

Ellay (2018)
Todd McCaffrey
"...gripping!."

Dualism (2014)
(Archon Sequence, book 2)
Bill DeSmedt
"An exciting tale of another path to super intelligence."

The Cassini Division (1997)
(Fall Revolution, book 3)
Ken MacLeod
"A brilliant novel of ideas."

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Books containing stories by Vernor Vinge

Sense of Wonder (2023)
A Century of Science Fiction
edited by
Leigh Ronald Grossman

Digital Rapture (2012)
The Singularity Anthology
edited by
James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel

Year's Best SF 16 (2011)
(Year's Best SF , book 16)
edited by
Kathryn Cramer and David G Hartwell

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Awards

	2007 Hugo Award for Best Novel : Rainbows End
	2000 Prometheus Award : A Deepness in the Sky
	2000 John W. Campbell Memorial Award : A Deepness in the Sky
	2000 Hugo Award for Best Novel : A Deepness in the Sky
	1993 Hugo Award for Best Novel : A Fire upon the Deep
	1987 Prometheus Award : Marooned in Realtime
	1985 Prometheus Award : The Peace War

Award nominations

	2012 Prometheus Award (nominee) : The Children of the Sky
	2007 Prometheus Award (nominee) : Rainbows End
	2007 John W. Campbell Memorial Award (nominee) : Rainbows End
	2000 Arthur C. Clarke Award (nominee) : A Deepness in the Sky
	1999 Nebula Award for Best Novel (nominee) : A Deepness in the Sky
	1999 British Fantasy Award for Best Novel (nominee) : A Deepness in the Sky
	1993 John W. Campbell Memorial Award (nominee) : A Fire upon the Deep
	1992 Nebula Award for Best Novel (nominee) : A Fire upon the Deep
	1987 Hugo Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Marooned in Realtime
	1987 Hugo Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : The Barbarian Princess
	1985 Hugo Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Peace War
	1982 Hugo Award for Best Novella (nominee) : True Names [short story]
	1981 Nebula Award for Best Novella (nominee) : True Names [short story]

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