Vinge

Vernor Vinge is in the list of SF/Fantasy novelists with the most Hugo/Nebula awards.

Dusk Before the Dawn » 2008 » February 2008

Vernor's "Deepness" series and White's "Space Hospital" series are good stories on their own although Vinge is best read in sequence because you're gonna wanna go back and read the prior stories anyway!

POLL RESULTS: Starting a Series in the Middle 2008

Vernor Vinge is a retired San Diego State University Professor of Mathematics, computer scientist, and science fiction author best known for his novels A Fire Upon the Deep, A Deepness in the Sky, and Rainbow's End, all Hugo award winners.

MIND MELD: Are We Headed For a Technological Panopticon? 2008

Vernor Vinge is a retired San Diego State University Professor of Mathematics, computer scientist, and science fiction author best known for his novels A Fire Upon the Deep, A Deepness in the Sky, and Rainbow's End, all Hugo award winners.

January 2008 2008

Singularity or no singularity Vinge is a jerk for doing that.

Review Criteria 2006

In fact, the excellent plot pissed me off, because it kept me turning the pages so fast I could barely pause to appreciate the wild ideas in Vinge's worldbuilding.

Boing Boing 2006

Vinge is some­thing of a Sin­gu­lar­ity pes­simist; in most of the out­comes he posits, life gets pretty bad for humankind.

Snarkularity « Snarkmarket 2005

This same sensawunda/human element was evident in Vinge's 2003 story "The Cookie Monster".

REVIEW: The Year's Best Science Fiction #22 edited by Gardner Dozois 2005

Vinge is probably best known for his essay The Technological Singularity in which he argues that the growth in technology will lead to a singularity point where the growth has accelerated beyond the ability of humans to understand it.

Reflective Surface - Archives: 2004 September 2004

Vinge is probably best known for his essay The Technological Singularity in which he argues that the growth in technology will lead to a singularity point where the growth has accelerated beyond the ability of humans to understand it.

Reflective Surface - Zones of Thought 2004