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American mathematician, computer scientist, and science fiction writer (1944-2024)

United StatesAcademicsLived 1944 to 2024 · aged 79
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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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2007Hugo Award for Best Novel
2007Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
2004Hugo Award for Best Novella
2004Locus Award for Best Novella
2004Kurd Lasswitz Award for Best Foreign Work
2002Hugo Award for Best Novella
2000Hugo Award for Best Novel
2000Prometheus Award
2000John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
1995Cosmos 2000 Award
1995Premio Gigamesh
1993Hugo Award for Best Novel
1992Inkpot Award
1987Prometheus Award

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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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Lived 1944 to 2024 · aged 79
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