Editing Vernor Vinge (section)

==Writing career==
Vinge published his first short story, "Apartness", in the June 1965 issue of the British magazine ''[[New Worlds (magazine)|New Worlds]]''. His second, "[[Bookworm, Run!]]", was in the March 1966 issue of ''[[Analog Science Fiction]]'', then edited by [[John W. Campbell]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?61 |title=Summary bibliography, Internet Speculative Fiction Database |access-date=April 29, 2022 |archive-date=May 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220523053439/http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?61 |url-status=live }}</ref> The story explores the theme of artificially augmented intelligence by connecting the brain directly to computerized data sources. He became a moderately prolific contributor to SF magazines in the 1960s and early 1970s. In 1969, he expanded the story "Grimm's Story" (''[[Orbit (anthology series)|Orbit 4]]'', 1968) into his first novel, ''[[Grimm's World]]''. In 1971, Vinge received his [[Ph.D.]] in mathematics from the [[University of California, San Diego]], under the supervision of [[Stefan E. Warschawski]].<ref>{{MathGenealogy|id=43211}}</ref> His second novel, ''[[The Witling]]'', was published in 1976.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchCode=LCCN&searchArg=93159703&searchType=1&permalink=y|title=The witling|last=Vinge|first=Vernor|date=1976|publisher=DAW Books|others=DAW Books Inc, Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress)|series=Daw Books = sf|location=New York|access-date=January 15, 2019|archive-date=October 30, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231030052923/https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchCode=LCCN&searchArg=93159703&searchType=1&permalink=y|url-status=live}}</ref>

Vinge came to prominence in 1981 with his novella ''[[True Names]]'', perhaps the first story to present a fully fleshed-out concept of [[cyberspace]],<ref name="Saffo 416–20"/> which would later be central to [[cyberpunk]] stories by [[William Gibson]], [[Neal Stephenson]] and others. His next two novels, ''[[The Peace War]]'' (1984) and ''[[Marooned in Realtime]]'' (1986), explore the spread of a future [[Libertarianism|libertarian]] society, and deal with the impact of a technology which can create impenetrable [[Force field (science fiction)|force fields]] called '[[Stasis (fiction)|bobbles]]'. These books built Vinge's reputation as an author who would explore ideas to their logical conclusions in particularly inventive ways. Both books were nominated for the [[Hugo Award]], but lost to novels by [[William Gibson]] and [[Orson Scott Card]].<ref name="WWE-1985">{{cite web |title=1985 Award Winners & Nominees |url=http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1985 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181106215604/http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1985 |archive-date=November 6, 2018 |access-date=August 12, 2010 |work=Worlds Without End}}</ref><ref name="WWE-1987">{{cite web |title=1987 Award Winners & Nominees |url=http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1987 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170709162306/https://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?Year=1987 |archive-date=July 9, 2017 |access-date=August 12, 2010 |work=Worlds Without End}}</ref>

Vinge won the Hugo Award (tying for Best Novel with ''[[Doomsday Book (novel)|Doomsday Book]]'' by [[Connie Willis]]) with his 1992 novel, ''[[A Fire Upon the Deep]]''.<ref name="WWE-1993">{{cite web |title=1993 Award Winners & Nominees |url=http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1993 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210712014237/https://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?Year=1993 |archive-date=July 12, 2021 |access-date=August 12, 2010 |work=Worlds Without End}}</ref> ''[[A Deepness in the Sky]]'' (1999) was a [[prequel]] to ''Fire'', following competing groups of humans in The Slow Zone as they struggle over who has the rights to exploit a technologically emerging alien culture. ''Deepness'' won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2000.<ref name=WWE-2000/>

His novellas ''[[Fast Times at Fairmont High]]'' and ''[[The Cookie Monster (novella)|The Cookie Monster]]'' also won Hugo Awards in 2002 and 2004, respectively.<ref name="sfadb">{{Cite web |title=Vernor Vinge Awards |url=https://www.sfadb.com/Vernor_Vinge |access-date=March 26, 2024 |website=sfadb.com}}</ref>

Vinge's 2006 novel ''[[Rainbows End (Vinge novel)|Rainbows End]]'', set in the same universe and featuring some of the same characters as ''Fast Times at Fairmont High'', won the 2007 Hugo Award for Best Novel.<ref name=WWE-2007/> In 2011, he released ''[[The Children of the Sky (novel)|The Children of the Sky]]'', a sequel to ''A Fire Upon the Deep'' set approximately 10&nbsp;years following the end of ''A Fire Upon the Deep''.<ref name=Norwescon33>[http://www.norwescon.org/archives/norwescon33/vingeinterview.htm Interview with Vernor Vinge] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210419005051/http://www.norwescon.org/archives/norwescon33/vingeinterview.htm |date=April 19, 2021 }}, [[Norwescon]] website, October 12, 2009.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://io9.com/5703493/vernor-vinges-sequel-to-a-fire-upon-the-deep-coming-in-october|title=Vernor Vinge's sequel to A Fire Upon The Deep coming in October!|date=December 2010|access-date=January 18, 2011|archive-date=September 12, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150912083336/http://io9.com/5703493/vernor-vinges-sequel-to-a-fire-upon-the-deep-coming-in-october|url-status=live}}</ref>

Vinge retired in 2000 from teaching at [[San Diego State University]], in order to write full-time. He was Writer Guest of Honor at [[ConJosé]], the 60th [[Worldcon|World Science Fiction Convention]] in 2002. Additionally, Vinge served on the [[Free Software Foundation]]'s selection committee for their [[Award for the Advancement of Free Software]] for most of the years between 1999 and his death in 2024.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fanac.org/conjose/Guests/index.html|title=Guests of Honor|publisher=[[ConJosé]] (the 2002 [[Worldcon]])|access-date=August 12, 2010|archive-date=January 19, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100119065244/http://www.fanac.org/conjose/Guests/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref>