![]() He is best known for his Hugo Award-winning novels A Fire Upon The Deep (1992), A Deepness in the Sky (1999) and Rainbows End (2006), his Hugo Award-winning novellas Fast Times at Fairmont High (2002) and The Cookie Monster (2004), as well as for his 1993 essay "The Coming Technological Singularity", in which he argues that exponential growth in technology will reach a point beyond which we cannot even speculate about the consequences. Vernor Steffen Vinge is a retired San Diego State University Professor of Mathematics, computer scientist, and science fiction author. Old man, and former poet and academic, Robert Gu awakens to find himself younger but missing several years from his memory due to having had Alzheimer's but being successfully treated. Vinge's Rainbows End is set in the (uncomfortably) near future of 2025. Vernor Steffen Vinge is a retired San Diego State University Professor of Mathematics, computer scientist, and science fiction author. Rainbows End (2006) Vernor Vinge, Tor (UK), 6.99, pbk, 381 pp, ISBN 978-0-330-4-5194-9. ![]()
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