# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vernor-vinge
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:38:53.389Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/vernor-vinge"
name: "Vernor Vinge"
slug: "vernor-vinge"
description: "Vernor Steffen Vinge was an American science fiction author and professor. He taught mathematics and computer science at San Diego State University. He was the first wide-scale popularizer of the technological singularity concept and among the first authors to present a fictional \"cyberspace\". He won the Hugo Award for his novels A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), A Deepness in the Sky (1999), and Rainbows End (2006), and novellas Fast Times at Fairmont High (2001) and The Cookie Monster (2004)."
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birthDate: "1944-10-02"
deathDate: "2024-03-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump