10 Facts About Vernor Vinge

Vernor Steffen Vinge is an American science fiction author and retired professor.

Vernor Vinge taught mathematics and computer science at San Diego State University.

Vernor Vinge is the first wide-scale popularizer of the technological singularity concept and perhaps the first to present a fictional "cyberspace".

Vernor Vinge published his first short story, "Apartness", in the June 1965 issue of the British magazine New Worlds.

Vernor Vinge became a moderately prolific contributor to SF magazines in the 1960s and early 1970s.

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Vernor 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.

Vernor Vinge won the Hugo Award with his 1992 novel, A Fire Upon the Deep.

Vernor Vinge retired in 2000 from teaching at San Diego State University, in order to write full-time.

Vernor Vinge was Writer Guest of Honor at ConJose, the 60th World Science Fiction Convention in 2002.

Vernor Vinge's former wife, Joan D Vinge, is a science fiction author.