Vernor Vinge

American mathematician, computer scientist, and science fiction writer (1944-2024) · United States · On the map · Academics · Died at 79

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".

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2024Died20 March 20242007Hugo Award for Best NovelAwardLocus Award for Best Science Fiction NovelAward2004Hugo Award for Best NovellaAwardKurd Lasswitz Award for Best Foreign WorkAwardLocus Award for Best NovellaAward2002Hugo Award for Best NovellaAward2000Hugo Award for Best NovelAwardJohn W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction NovelAwardPrometheus AwardAward1995Cosmos 2000 AwardAwardPremio GigameshAward1993Hugo Award for Best NovelAward1992Inkpot AwardAward1987Prometheus AwardAward1944Born2 October 1944

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Vernor Vinge in 2008

Awards

Hugo Award for Best Novel2007

Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel2007

Hugo Award for Best Novella2004

Locus Award for Best Novella2004

Kurd Lasswitz Award for Best Foreign Work2004

Hugo Award for Best Novella2002

Hugo Award for Best Novel2000

Prometheus Award2000

John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel2000

Cosmos 2000 Award1995

Premio Gigamesh1995

Hugo Award for Best Novel1993

Inkpot Award1992

Prometheus Award1987

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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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