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Vernor Vinge (1944 -), natural American Wisconsin and raised in Michigan, a doctorate in mathematics from the University of California San Diego, where he served as associate professor until 2000. Currently devoted exclusively to science fiction writing.

Fond of it since childhood, began in 1965 as an amateur writer sporadically publishing stories in magazines, mostly in Analog. The great success of his novels in the series of bubbles, war and peace (1984) and Marooned in Real Time (1986) - Hugo Award finalist and winner of Prometheus - she was among the most popular writers time.

But his real moment comes with his next novel, A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), public and critical success with getting his first Hugo after four nominations. The latest novel by Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky (1999), also a well known and award-winning work (including Hugo in 2000), with which the author tries to make with the previous trilogy - still unfinished " - to be known as the Trilogy of the Abyss.

Vinge is one of the current representatives of the hard science fiction, which has contributed some of the most original and innovative ideas in recent times.

Outside the literary circles of science fiction, Vinge is famous for his idea of ​​technological singularity, according to which the creation of artificial intelligences greater than the human capacity - which in turn produce even greater intelligence and so on - lead to a "singularity" in development, a turning point of exponential technological growth, with unimaginable consequences, and from which it is impossible to speculate about our future.

Novels

* The Peace War (1984) (Saga of bubbles 1)
* Shipwreck in real time (1986) (Saga of bubbles 2)
* A Fire Upon the Deep (1992)
* A Deepness in the Sky (1999)


http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernor_Vinge

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The Peace War

Shipwreck in real time

A Fire Upon the Deep

I owe the last, and I have what i understand this very important and even considered as more than "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" by Philip K. Dick