![]() In a field noted for its fecundity, his growing weight of influence for such a small output makes Rainbows End a major event.įor the first time a Vinge novel has a near-future setting, exploring current concerns about personal and state security, and how the ever-accelerating progress in technology will affect them. In the seven years since A Deepness in The Sky, Vinge has won two more Hugo awards, for his only two short works of the last fifteen years (discounting an extract from Rainbows End that appeared in a non-genre magazine in 2004). ![]() Its prequel A Deepness in The Sky was thought by many to be even better. A Fire Upon the Deep was one of the finest SF novels of the 1990s. His methods are vindicated by the quality of his work. Vernor Vinge is best known for three things: his 1981 landmark novella True Names, cited by many as the true precursor of cyberpunk his creation of The Singularity, that moment beyond which the future becomes incomprehensible and the almost glacial slowness of his output-six novels and barely twenty stories in forty years. ![]()
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