Vernor Vinge
1944
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photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
genre: science fiction
country of citizenship: United States of America
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: University of California, San Diego, Michigan State University, San Diego State University
occupation: mathematician, computer scientist, novelist, writer, science fiction writer, university teacher
award received: Prometheus Award, Hugo Award for Best Novel, John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, Hugo Award for Best Novella, Locus Award for Best Novella, Kurd Lasswitz Award for best foreign work, Cosmos 2000 Award, Premio Gigamesh, Inkpot Award
position held: professor emeritus
official website: vrinimi.org
Vernor Steffen Vinge ( (listen); born October 2, 1944) is an American science fiction author and retired professor. He taught mathematics and computer science at San Diego State University. He is the first wide-scale popularizer of the technological singularity concept and among the first authors to present a fictional "cyberspace". He has won the Hugo Award for his novels A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), A Deepness in the Sky (1999), Rainbows End (2006), and novellas Fast Times at Fairmont High (2002), and The Cookie Monster (2004). Source: Wikipedia (en)
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