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Страницы автора на других языках и псевдонимы: Виндж Вернор Стефан
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Дата рождения: 2 October 1944
Место рождения: Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA
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Vernor Steffen Vinge  is an American science fiction author and retired educator. He taught mathematics and computer science at San Diego State University. He is best-known for his Hugo Award-winning novels and novellas A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), A Deepness in the Sky (1999), Rainbows End (2006), Fast Times at Fairmont High (2002), and The Cookie Monster (2004), as well as for his 1984 novel The Peace War and his 1993 essay "The Coming Technological Singularity".
 
Vinge published his first short story, "Bookworm, Run!", in the March 1966 issue of Analog Science Fiction, then edited by John W. Campbell. The story explores the theme of artificially augmented intelligence by connecting the brain directly to computerised data sources. He became a moderately prolific contributor to SF magazines in the 1960s and early 1970s. In 1969, he expanded the story "Grimm's Story" (Orbit 4, 1968) into his first novel, Grimm's World. His second novel, The Witling, was published in 1975.
 
Vinge came to prominence in 1981 with his novella True Names, perhaps the first story to present a fully fleshed-out concept of cyberspace, which would later be central to cyberpunk stories by William Gibson, Neal Stephenson and others. His next two novels, The Peace War (1984) and Marooned in Realtime (1986), explore the spread of a future libertarian society, and deal with the impact of a technology which can create impenetrable force fields called 'bobbles'. These books built Vinge's reputation as an author who would explore ideas to their logical conclusions in particularly inventive ways. Both books were nominated for the Hugo Award, but lost to novels by William Gibson and Orson Scott Card.
 
Vinge won the Hugo Award (tying for Best Novel with Doomsday Book by Connie Willis) with his 1992 novel, A Fire Upon the Deep. A Deepness in the Sky (1999) was a prequel to Fire, following competing groups of humans in The Slow Zone as they struggle over who has the rights to exploit a technologically emerging alien culture. Deepness won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2000.
 
His novellas Fast Times at Fairmont High and The Cookie Monster also won Hugo Awards in 2002 and 2004, respectively.
 
Vinge's 2006 novel Rainbows End, set in a similar universe to Fast Times at Fairmont High, won the 2007 Hugo Award for Best Novel. His next novel was released in October 2011. The Children of the Sky is a sequel to A Fire Upon the Deep, set approximately 10 years later.
 
Vinge retired in 2000 from teaching at San Diego State University, in order to write full-time. Most years, since its inception in 1999, Vinge has been on the Free Software Foundation's selection committee for their Award for the Advancement of Free Software. Vernor Vinge was Writer Guest of Honor at ConJosé, the 60th World Science Fiction Convention in 2002.
 
His former wife, Joan, is an accomplished science fiction author.[12]
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Across Realtime

0 (0) 0 2 декабря 2010 13:37 Научная фантастика 147 EN

A Deepness in the Sky

0 (0) 0 2 декабря 2010 13:37 Научная фантастика 189 EN 1999

A Fire Upon the Deep

0 (0) 0 30 октября 2010 22:12 Научная фантастика 147 EN 1992

Bomb Scare

0 (0) 0 2 декабря 2010 13:37 Научная фантастика 3 EN

Fast Times at Fairmont High

0 (0) 0 2 декабря 2010 13:37 Научная фантастика 18 EN 2001

Rainbows End

0 (0) 0 2 декабря 2010 13:37 Научная фантастика 98 EN 2006

The Cookie Monster

0 (0) 0 2 декабря 2010 13:37 Научная фантастика 14 EN 2003

True Names

0 (0) 0 2 декабря 2010 13:37 Научная фантастика 27 EN 1984