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	Vernor Vinge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vinge came to prominence in 1981 with his novella True Names, which is one of the earliest stories to present a fully fleshed-out concept of cyberspace, which would later be central to stories by William Gibson, Neal Stephenson and others (and particularly to the cyberpunk genre).
		In it, Vinge envisions a galaxy that is divided up into "zones of thought", in which the further one moves from the center of the galaxy, the higher the level of technology one can achieve.
		Vinge has completed a new novel "Rainbows End", which is set in the same universe as "Fast Times at Fairmont High" and is scheduled for publication in the US on May 16, 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vernor_Vinge (771 words)

	Salon \| Vernor Vinge, online prophet
		But Vinge was reluctant to let real-world technological change contaminate his fiction: To do so, he worried, would run the risk of incorporating massive inconsistencies in his future-history timeline.
		Vinge, a math professor who teaches computer science at San Diego State, is convinced that the "problem of software complexity" is the main obstacle that programmers face in creating intelligent computers.
		Vinge agrees that the rise of the open-source software development model -- which links thousands of programmers together via the Net in massively collaborative software creation projects -- offers hope that our collective intelligence may be increasing.
	www.salon.com /tech/feature/1999/04/05/vinge/print.html (1085 words)

	Science Fiction Book Reviews
		Vinge is a computer scientist, and many of these stories show his interest in computers and the machine-mind interface.
		Vernor Vinge has not been a prolific writer, but his stories are stocked with more neat and original ideas than most novels.
		Vinge is one of the field's innovative thinkers, and one of the themes hiding within his SF involves the "singularity," that point in our cultural and technological evolution where artificial and enhanced intelligence increases so exponentially fast that the world becomes incomprehensible to normal humans.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue241/books2.html (638 words)

	Minicon 30 Guest of Honor Vernor Vinge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Vernor Vinge was better known in the late 1960s and early 1970s than he was in 1983.
		While Vernor was learning and teaching computer science, his then wife, Joan D. Vinge, was starting her own science fiction career, beginning in 1973.
		Vinge was in San Francisco for the World SF Convention, ConFrancisco, sitting in the front row where all the nominees and their guests were sitting during the Awards ceremony.
	mnstf.org /minicon30/vernor-vinge.html (810 words)

	Vernor Vinge
		Vernor Vinge is perhaps my favorite science fiction author - despite having a relatively modest output of material.
		Vinge correctly understood the importance of secrecy and cryptography, the coming pervasiveness of computer networks, and how the personal computer would open up the world of computing to the everyman.
		I also think Vinge shortchanges the security efforts of government and corporate computer systems to protect against outsiders doing what Vinge's heroes do here (though he does take paints to note that the government is generally behind the warlocks in their networking savvy).
	www.leftfield.org /~rawdon/books/sf/vinge_vernor (3136 words)

	Vernor Vinge
		Vernor Vinge is best known for his Hugo Award winning novel A Fire Upon the Deep (1992) and for his related essay "The Technological Singularity" (1993).
		Vinge, who expects the singularity to occur by 2030, also predicts that this singularity, and its resultant superintelligences, will put an end, one way or another, to the human race as we know it.
		But Vinge notes that unlike the writers during science fiction’s Golden Age or NewWave periods, he and other contemporary writers who dabble with futurism and hard science are fiercely challenged in their bid to come up with such new ideas.
	www.nndb.com /people/715/000023646 (823 words)

	: RevolutionSF - Vernor Vinge: Singular SF : Feature
		Vernor: One of my feelings about the Singularity (a big part of the naming motivation, in fact) is that since human-sized minds aren't running the show once the Singularity happens, it's much harder to talk about what things are like -- say -- it would be to talk about Space Travel or prolongevity.
		Vernor: My reading is narrow in the sense that it is mostly science fiction and a little fantasy and suspense/horror -- but I don't concentrated on the stuff that my writing is about (except that sometimes, as with the Singularity, a idea has to come up independently simply as part of tech extrapolation).
		Vernor: My version is that it is there are creatures around who are truly superhuman -- and the idea that we may well be able to create such things in the historically near future.
	www.revolutionsf.com /article.html?id=895&page=2 (1436 words)

	Vernor Vinge: A Deepness in the Sky - an infinity plus review
		One of Vinge's most intriguing concepts is that of the "Age of Failed Dreams", the early period of humankind's expansion into space, when all hopes of utopia and miraculous technology turned out to be empty; disillusion has prevailed ever since.
		Vinge's larger point seems to be that, for those dwelling in a physical and existential prison, totalitarianism and the control it promises must always be a tantalising course.
		Vinge leaves that in doubt; when at novel's end Pham Nuwen (in ignorant inspiration) plans his voyage to escape the Slow Zone, he plots a course towards the galactic Core.
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /nonfiction/deepness.htm (1068 words)

	Singularity: Vernor Vinge
		Vinge came up with good, logical, answers, built a society around them and then set an interesting story in that society.
		It was one of the earliest stories to talk of cyberspace and Vinge knew programmers well enough to realize that their cyberspace would be a world where they were - literally - wizards, a world shot-through with fantasy elements.
		Vinge develops two stories in parallel: the conflicts between the two human groups, and the conflicts that the aliens - the Spiders - are having amongst themselves.
	www.nesfa.org /reviews/Olson/SingularityVernorVinge.html (3806 words)

	: RevolutionSF - Vernor Vinge: Singular SF : Feature
		Vernor Vinge is one of the most widely-respected authors in science fiction.
		Vinge's influential "True Names" was recently republished in TOR's True Names: And the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier, a non-fiction anthology which explores the growth of the Internet in the years since the seminal novella first appeared.
		Vernor: If this interview had been before 9/11 I think a good argument could be have made that we might turn the corner on that prediction in the next decade.
	www.revolutionsf.com /article.html?id=895 (1551 words)

	On Vernor Vinge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Vinge is also a professor of Mathematics and a computer scientist who specializes in Artificial Intelligence.
		In Vinge's singularity piece, Humans can be thought of as roughly equivalent to the unsophisticated CMOS chip while the post-singularity intelligence will (like the OS) be orders of magnitude smarter than the smartest human.
		Reading Vinge's paper, its' hard not to be both horrified at the inevitability of such an event and at the same time, curious about what will follow.
	www.xanadb.com /archive/rants/2003062303.html (387 words)

	Amazon.com: True Names: And the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier: Books: Vernor Vinge,James Frenkel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Vinge does not stint on developing his characters while letting us wander in his (at the time he wrote it) fairyland.
		Some of the impact of Vinge's story may have been lost in the intervening years since its writing, as many of his imagined items have become reality, but it would be very hard to find a science fiction story that has predicted the future as well as this one.
		Perhaps due to Vinge's familiarity with the technology, however, he was able to pinpoint a number of important issues and sticky points quite specifically, and well ahead of his time.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312862075?v=glance (2885 words)

	A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge, a science fiction book
		As always, Vinge loads up his fiction with plenty of interesting ideas, such as the future practice of software archeology, and the possibility of creating what is in effect artificial intelligence using the human brain.
		Vinge brings in a moral issue concerning the few children who are born "out of phase" with the others, but shouldn't there be other cultural differences resulting from the fact that almost all the members of each generation are born at the same time?
		To be fair, Vinge does attempt to justify the Spiders' familiarity by telling us we're reading an anthropomorphized translation of their stories.
	members.aol.com /tishede/vvinge.htm (1118 words)

	Amazon.com: A Deepness in the Sky : A Novel (Zones of Thought): Books: Vernor Vinge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Vinge's body of work stands as a rebuke to that majority of SF writers who crank out a book or two of mediocrity every year.
		Vinge has all of the tools of a good SF writer: a mastery of science, creativity in projecting future developments, and the grasp of history necessary to make future societies believable.
		Finally, Vinge also plays a neat little game with part of the narrative, making it seem to be from one point of view and then slowly revealing that it is, in fact, from another.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0812536355?v=glance (2514 words)

	Vinge, Vernor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This is also the novel in which Vinge introduced the now fairly well-known concept of The Singularity: A time in the future beyond which we simply cannot speculate as to what civilisation will be like, owing to scientific and technological advance, coupled with consequent social changes.
		But this is where Vinge formalised the concept in a way that had not been done before, by giving it a name, and showing that this is an issue that serious SF can and should confront.
		A neat concept that is original with Vinge, and is a suitable playground for a modern hard SF writer who wants to have his cake and eat it.
	www.moss53.freeserve.co.uk /vingever.htm (4572 words)

	Vernor Vinge: A Deepness in the Sky
		Although Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky is set in the same universe as his Hugo-Award winning A Fire on the Deep, it is neither sequel nor prequel.
		Vinge's portrayal of the genius Sherkanner Underhill, a Spider who figures out ways to defeat the need to go into hibernation is just icing on the cake.
		If Vinge had been trying to say that certain levels of society would create certain types of culture, this might have been interesting, but this is not the case.
	www.sfsite.com /~silverag/deepness.html (584 words)

	Wired 3.06: Singular Visionary
		Sci-fi master/math nerd Vernor Vinge believes that machines are about to rule the human race as humans have ruled the animal kingdom.
		Author Vinge is a mathlete - an associate professor of math sciences at San Diego State University; he sold his first science fiction story in 1964.
		Vinge: All sorts of apocalyptic visions are floating around, but mine is very narrow.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/3.06/vinge.html (730 words)

	The Observer \| Magazine \| The best and brightest 2003: Vernor Vinge
		But when applied to society by Vernor Vinge, singularity means a moment beyond which huge but unpredictable changes occur.
		In the blink of an eye, or rather in as little as 60 hours of becoming 'superhuman' - something he expects no later than the year 2030 or he'll be 'surprised' - computers could have re-modelled society and subverted laws in ways utterly bewildering to us.
		In his near-future story Fast Times At Fairmont High, Vinge depicts humans wearing wireless-direct-mind-links and 13-year-olds making their best efforts to avoid contact with older teenagers who will be less adaptive, unable to specialise anew from day to day, plain out of touch.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /magazine/story/0,11913,865638,00.html (600 words)

	Sore Eyes ~ Vernor Vinge
		The only problem was that as Vinge continues to hold down an academic post he takes far too long to produce a novel.
		However, it would be a mistake to assume that Vinge's characters are just cardboard cutouts whose sole function is to be pushed around a chess board to illustrate some ethical debate.
		Vinge's characters are extremely believable, and have to confront their share of personal dilemmas and learn to live with the consequences of their decisions, for themselves and those they love.
	www.thebeard.demon.co.uk /vinge.html (897 words)

	Vernor Vinge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Thirty thousand gears before the events recounted in Vernor Vinge's Hugo Award-winning A Fire Upon the Deep, Pham Nuwen is living in anonymity as a minor cog in the great machine that is the Oeng Ho interstellar trading fleet.
		Vinge is one of the great visionary writers of science fiction today.
		Vernor Vinge won the Hugo Award for his novel A Fire Upon the Deep (1992).
	www.twbooks.co.uk /authors/vernorvinge.html (1003 words)

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		Vinge believes that the exponential advance of technology will continue in the future, until the point at which superhuman intelligence (AI or computer- enchanced human) can be realized.
		Vinge believes science fiction which ignores the potential of such a Singularity to be dishonest.
		Vinge, an expert in computer science, has made a name for himself in considering natural and artificial intelligence, its limits and implications.
	sf.www.lysator.liu.se /sf_archive/sf-texts/books/V/Vinge,Vernor.mbox (4701 words)

	Vernor Vinge to speak at Foresight Gathering - Nanodot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Vernor Vinge, author of some of the best -- many would say THE best -- novels on highly advanced coming technologies, will speak at the Sept 8-10 Foresight Gathering.
		It was Vernor who came up with the term Singularity; come hear about it from the man himself.
		He cites Vinge's Golden Rule-type principle: "Treat your inferiors as you would be treated by your superiors." The poll results so far favor turning the essay into a book, and I agree that these issues need more attention, concerning both goals and means.
	nanodot.org /articles/00/07/31/2333255.shtml (510 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: A Deepness in the Sky
		Vernor Vinge was born in 1944 in Wisconsin.
		Vernor Vinge may not be the most prolific novelist in science fiction, but The Peace War, Marooned in Realtime, A Fire Upon the Deep, and now A Deepness in the Sky argue that he is among the best.
		And a story with ideas and characters that grow in depth with every new chapter all the way to an ending that simply wraps up the story while incidentally explaining the use of ordinary human terms to describe the spider's lives is a measure of his success.
	www.sfsite.com /03a/deep52.htm (696 words)

	Colin Glassey on Vernor Vinge
		Vernor Vinge has undergone significant improvement over the course of his writing carear.
		Vinge has a rather frightening vision of the near future which he skirts about in his later stories: namely that if present trends continue, we will soon (like within 30 years) create a super human intelligence.
		Vinge introduces a great new idea with many ramifications and also creates a very plausible society of alien "dogs" that works quite well.
	www.teleologic.com /crghome/vvinge.html (390 words)

	Singular Vernor Vinge Page
		Vernor Vinge is at the other extreme; in looking at the potential of realistic technology, particularly computers/AI or cognitive science, he has come to the conclusion that we must run into a Singularity beyond which meaningful prediction (and fiction) is impossible.
		The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge -- short story collection including the stories from the first two collections, except for "True Names", plus a few others.
		Vernor Vinge is in the Internet Top 100 SF books -- more than once!
	mindstalk.net /vinge (288 words)

	Discussing Vinge's Singularity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Vernor Vinge begain speaking on his "singularity" concept in the 1980s, and collected his thoughts into his first article on the topic in 1993.
		Since then, Vinge has continued to give talks, and has elaborated on his concept in several media interviews.
		Finally, for a two weeks period (September 6-20, 1998) Vinge, the commentors, and anyone else who wanted to joined in an open discussion on the Extropians email list.
	hanson.gmu.edu /vi.html (199 words)

	Article: Interview: Vernor Vinge
		Vernor Vinge: My version is that in the near-historical future, it seems very likely that we will be able to create beings that are smarter than humans in every way we think of humans being smart and creative.
		This sort of technical advance is qualitatively different from other technical advances, and it qualifies for the name "singularity" in that the world afterwards is intrinsically unknowable to people on our side of the singularity.
		I was not writing with her behind the scenes, but I think there was a psychological benefit to me in the fact that she was writing.
	www.strangehorizons.com /2003/20030915/vinge.shtml (2602 words)

	Review: Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky, reviewed by Amy Harlib
		ow that veteran SF writer Vernor Vinge's most recent book, A Deepness in the Sky has won the Hugo Award for best SF novel of the year, this seems to be a good time to re-assess it and the novel that inspired it, A Fire Upon the Deep, which won the Hugo in 1993.
		As the story flows from the viewpoints of the Qeng Ho, the Emergents, and the Spiders, the narrative offers continual new ideas and plot twists that are gripping and exciting throughout, while the themes of first contact, the horrors of slavery and mind-control, and the senselessness of war add provocative depth.
		Considered together, the two volumes demonstrate Vinge's desire that science fiction be both a literature of mind-expanding entertainment and of serious, challenging ideas from which the reader will emerge exhilarated and enlightened.
	www.strangehorizons.com /2001/20010709/vinge.shtml (1277 words)

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