Vernor Vinge

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(October 2, 1944 – March 20, 2024)

Vernor Steffen Vinge was a pro writer and computer scientist, best known for "True Names", The Peace War, Marooned in Realtime, A Fire Upon the Deep, and A Deepness in the Sky and for writing about and popularizing the idea of the Singularity, notably in a 1993 paper titled “The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era” for NASA’s VISION-21 Symposium, published in Whole Earth Review, but he had written about it in Omni a decade earlier. He was a master of hard science fiction in both the short form and novel-length.

He was married from 1972–79 to pro writer Joan D. Vinge. He held a Ph.D. in mathematics from UCSD and taught math and computer science at San Diego State University until he retired in 2000 to write full-time. Vinge was born in Waukesha, WI.

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