Vernor Vinge has died
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Vernor Vinge has died
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#2Haven't read his fiction works yet, but his singularity piece is very interesting: https://edoras.sdsu.edu/~vinge/misc/singularity.html
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#3I knew "Fire upon the deep" would be a good book just few pages in, where in acknowledgements Vinge thanks
"the organizers of the Arctic ’88 distributed systems course at the University of Tromsø".
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#4Doesn’t he deserve the black bar on top of HN?
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#5"So High,
So Low,
So Many Things to Know."
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#6Doesn’t he deserve the black bar on top of HN?
Yes. I assume the admin is sleeping. @dang
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#7If you haven't read A Fire Upon The Deep (or even if you already have), you can read the prologue and first few chapters here: https://www.baen.com/Chapters/-0812515285/A_Fire_Upon_the_De...
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#8Oh man, this makes me sad.
I remember reading A Fire Upon the Deep based on a Usenet recommendation, and then immediately wanting to read everything else he wrote. A Deepness in the Sky is a worthy sequel.
He wasn’t prolific, but what he wrote was gold. He had a Tolkienesque ability to build world depth not by lengthy exposition, but by expert omission.
A true name in sci-fi.
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#9This guy was one of the greats. A deepness in the sky (the sequel) is one of my favourite sci fi books of all time, and even better than Fire upon the deep imo.
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#10> We spanned a pretty wide spectrum – politically! Yet, we KBs [Killer B’s] (Vernor was a full member ... )
Does this mean something other than a wu tang fan?