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Author and professor of mathematics Vernor Vinge, best known for his "gripping hard science fiction" and introducing the concept of the technological singularity (AKA the Singularity)," died March 20 at age 79, Locus <https://locusmag.com/2024/03/vernor-vinge-1944-2024/> magazine reported. Vinge's debut novel, Grimm's World, was published in 1969. A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), the first book in the Zones of Thought series, won the Hugo Award, while the second title in the series, A Deepness in the Sky (1999), took the Hugo Award

Sci-fi author and computer scientist who coined the term ‘the Singularity’ to describe the rapid acceleration of AI

The Short: I recently reread "The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge", 2001 Tor, 21 years after reading it the first time. I had read some of these stories recently, but many of them not since 2002. I gave the 17 stories here an average overall rating of 3.73/5, or "Very good". Recommended. The Long: I've…

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