Vernor Steffen Vinge (October 2, 1944 – March 20, 2024) 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 (2002) and The Cookie Monster (2004).
Born |
2 October 1944 Waukesha, Wisconsin, U.S.
|
Died |
20 March 2024 (aged 79)
|
Zodiac | Libra |
Tags | Add tag |