Vernor Vinge
Vernor Steffen Vinge [ ˈvɪndʒɪ ] (born October 2, 1944 ) is an American mathematician , computer scientist and science fiction author.
He is best known for his novel A Fire Upon the Deep (1992) (dt. A fire on the depth (1995)), for which he received the Hugo Award winning, as well as for his essay The Technological Singularity (1993; dt. The Science Fiction Year 2004 , Heyne), in which he argues that the exponential growth in technology will reach a point, the technological singularity , from which it will no longer be possible to even speculate about the consequences.
The sequel to A Fire Upon the Deep is A Deepness in the Sky (dt. (1999) A depth in the sky (2003)), which in the narrative ago A Fire Upon the Deep is located and in which he again won the Hugo Award . In the following year, the work also received the Kurd-Laßwitz Prize for best foreign novel. In 2007 he won the Locus Award for Rainbows End .
He was married to science fiction writer Joan D. Vinge from 1972 to 1979 .
Works
Novels
- 1969 Grimm's World (extended version 1987 as Tatja Grimm's World )
- 1976 The Witling (German: Der Besserwisser, Bastei-Lübbe, 1984) ISBN 3-404-21174-X
- 2006 Rainbows End (German: Das Ende des Regenbogens, Cross Cult, 2016) ISBN 978-3-95981-144-6
Zones of Thinking Cycle
- 1992 A Fire Upon the Deep (German: A Fire on the Deep , Heyne, revised new edition 2007, ISBN 978-3-453-52285-5 )
- 1999 A Deepness in the Sky (German: Eineiefe am Himmel , Heyne, 2003, ISBN 3-453-87063-8 )
- 2011 The Children of the Sky
Real time cycle
- 1984 The Peace War (German: Der Friedenskrieg, Heyne, 1989) ISBN 3-453-03153-9
- 1985 The Ungoverned (Novelle, German: Die Unregierte, in Vernor Vinge: Die Tiefen der Zeit, Heyne, 2006) ISBN 3-453-52132-3
- 1986 Marooned in Realtime (German: Stranded in der Realzeit, Heyne, 1989) ISBN 3-453-03154-7
Short story collections
- 1987 True Names and Other Dangers
- 1988 Threats .. and Other Promises
- 2001 The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge (German: Die Tiefen der Zeit, Heyne, 2006, one story is missing in the German edition, but two others have been added) ISBN 3-453-52132-3
essay
- 1993 The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era (in Proceedings: VISION-21 Symposium March 30-31, 1993) [1]
- 2001 True Names and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier (in: True Names and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier , Ed. James Frenkel)
Web links
- Literature by and about Vernor Vinge in the catalog of the German National Library
- Vernor Vinge in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- Works by and about Vernor Vinge at Open Library
- Vernor Vinge in the Science Fiction Awards + Database (English)
- Biography and bibliography with many reviews
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SURNAME | Vinge, Vernor |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vinge, Vernor Steffen (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician, computer scientist and science fiction writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 2, 1944 |