Vernor Vinge

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Vernor Vinge at the Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference 2006

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

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)

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personal data
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