Vernor Vinge

Vernor Steffen Vinge (pronounced VIN-jee, rhyming with 'stingy') (born February 10, 1944) is a mathematician, computer scientist and science fiction author who is best known for his Hugo award-winning novel A Fire Upon the Deep, and for his 1993 essay "The Technological Singularity", in which he argues that exponential growth in technology will reach a point beyond which we cannot even speculate about the consequences.

Bibliography

Novels

• Grimm's World (1969), revised as Tatja Grimm's World (1987)
• The Witling (1976)
• The Peace War (1984)
• Marooned in Realtime (1986) (These two novels collected as Across Realtime.)
• A Fire Upon the Deep (1992)
• A Deepness in the Sky (1999)
• Rainbows End (forthcoming)

Collections

• True Names and Other Dangers ISBN 0-671-65363-6
• "Bookworm, Run!"
• "True Names"
• "The Peddler's Apprentice" (with Joan D. Vinge)
• "The Ungoverned" (occurs in the same milieu as Across Realtime)
• "Long Shot"
• Threats... and Other Promises ISBN 0-671-69790-0 (These two volumes collect Vinge's short fiction through the early 1990s.)
• "Apartness"
• "Conquest by Default"
• "The Whirligig of Time"
• "Gemstone"
• "Just Peace" (with William Rupp)
• "Original Sin"
• "The Blabber" (occurs in the same milieu as A Fire Upon the Deep)
• Across Realtime
• "The Peace War"
• "The Ungoverned"
• "Marooned in Realtime"
• True Names and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier ISBN 0312862075 (contains "True Names" plus essays by others)
• The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge ISBN 0312873735 (hardcover) or ISBN 0312875843 (paperback) (These two volumes collect Vinge's short fiction through 2001, including Vinge's comments from the earlier two volumes.)
• "Bookworm, Run!"
• "The Accomplice"
• "The Peddler's Apprentice" (with Joan D. Vinge)
• "The Ungoverned"
• "Long Shot"
• "Apartness"
• "Conquest by Default"
• "The Whirligig of Time"
• "Bomb Scare"
• "The Science Fair"
• "Gemstone"
• "Just Peace" (with William Rupp)
• "Original Sin"
• "The Blabber"
• "Win A Nobel Prize!" (originally published in Nature, Vol 407 No 6805 "Futures")
• "The Barbarian Princess" (this is also the first section of "Taja Grimm's World")
• "Fast Times at Fairmont High" (occurs in the same milieu as Rainbows End)

Uncollected Short Fiction

• "A Dry Martini" (The 60th World Science Fiction Convention ConJosé Restaurant Guide, page 60)
• "The Cookie Monster" (Analog Science Fiction, October 2003)
• "Synthetic Serendipity", IEEE Spectrum Online, 30 June 2004 (Excerpt from Rainbows End)

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