Author

Books by Vernor Vinge

Vernor Vinge is an American mathematician and science fiction writer, born in 1944, known for his concept of the Technological Singularity — the idea that the creation of greater-than-human intelligence will produce changes impossible to predict from before the threshold. He published his most celebrated novels in the 1990s: A Fire Upon the Deep and its companion A Deepness in the Sky, which won separate Hugo Awards. His novella True Names (1981) is an early and influential treatment of virtual reality and cyberspace. He retired from teaching mathematics at San Diego State University to write full time.