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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.

Awards: Hugo (2007), Prometheus (2000), Campbell (2000) see all

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

Books containing stories by Vernor Vinge

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

Speaking of the Fantastic IV (2018)
(Speaking of the Fantastic, book 4)
edited by
Darrell Schweitzer

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

More books

Awards

	2007 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel : Rainbows End
	2007 Hugo Award for Best Novel : Rainbows End
	2004 Locus Award for Best Novella : The Cookie Monster
	2004 Hugo Award for Best Novella : The Cookie Monster
	2002 Hugo Award for Best Novella : Fast Times at Fairmont High
	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
	2012 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : The Children of the Sky
	2007 Prometheus Award (nominee) : Rainbows End
	2007 John W. Campbell Memorial Award (nominee) : Rainbows End
	2005 Nebula Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Cookie Monster
	2002 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Fast Times at Fairmont High
	2002 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge
	2000 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : A Deepness in the Sky
	2000 Arthur C. Clarke Award (nominee) : A Deepness in the Sky
	1999 Nebula Award for Best Novel (nominee) : A Deepness in the Sky
	1993 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : A Fire upon the Deep
	1993 John W. Campbell Memorial Award (nominee) : A Fire upon the Deep
	1992 Nebula Award for Best Novel (nominee) : A Fire upon the Deep
	1989 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Blabber
	1989 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Threats and Other Promises
	1988 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : True Names: And the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier
	1987 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Marooned in Realtime
	1987 Hugo Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : The Barbarian Princess
	1987 Hugo Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Marooned in Realtime
	1985 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : The Peace War
	1985 Hugo Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Peace War
	1982 Nebula Award for Best Novella (nominee) : True Names [short story]
	1982 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : True Names: And the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier
	1982 Hugo Award for Best Novella (nominee) : True Names [short story]

Vernor Vinge recommends

Ellay (2018)
(Ellay, book 1)
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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