Re: Vernor Vinge (1944 - 2024)

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Sujet : Re: Vernor Vinge (1944 - 2024)
De : naddy (at) *nospam* mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
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Date : 22. Mar 2024, 23:26:48
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On 2024-03-21, James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:

SF author Vernor Vinge (1944 - 2024) is reported to have died, age 79.

I saw him at one of the conferences organized by the Extropians,
some 25 years ago.  He was a very influential author in transhumanist
circles.

Of his works, I have read:

* _The Peace War_
  I'm sorry to say, but that one was forgettable, other than setting
  up _Marooned in Realtime_.

* _Marooned in Realtime_
  Takes an idea and runs with it.  Thinking at a rare scale.
  Disparate people use stasis fields to travel into a future of
  ever accelerating human progress... until, at some point, humanity
  is gone.  Disappeared.  Without a trace.  The befuddled time
  travelers leave each other messages and eventually meet up 50
  million years from now.  This is a story where people need to
  consider geological events.  IIRC, one character killed some time
  by exploring the galaxy at STL speed.  If I had something like
  Lynn's six-star list, this book would feature prominently there.

* _A Fire Upon the Deep_
  His magnum opus.  An exuberant display of ideas.

--
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de

Date Sujet#  Auteur
21 Mar 24 * Vernor Vinge (1944 - 2024)18James Nicoll
21 Mar 24 +- Re: Vernor Vinge (1944 - 2024)1Don
21 Mar 24 +- Re: Vernor Vinge (1944 - 2024)1Michael F. Stemper
21 Mar 24 +- Re: Vernor Vinge (1944 - 2024)1Tony Nance
22 Mar 24 +* Re: Vernor Vinge (1944 - 2024)8Lynn McGuire
22 Mar 24 i`* Re: Vernor Vinge (1944 - 2024)7ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan
22 Mar 24 i `* Re: Vernor Vinge (1944 - 2024)6Chris Buckley
22 Mar 24 i  +- Re: Vernor Vinge (1944 - 2024)1Kevrob
22 Mar 24 i  +* Re: Vernor Vinge (1944 - 2024)2D
23 Mar 24 i  i`- Re: Vernor Vinge (1944 - 2024)1Cryptoengineer
22 Mar 24 i  +- Re: Vernor Vinge (1944 - 2024)1Lynn McGuire
29 Mar 24 i  `- Re: Vernor Vinge (1944 - 2024)1Titus G
22 Mar 24 +- Re: Vernor Vinge (1944 - 2024)1William Hyde
23 Mar 24 +- Re: Vernor Vinge (1944 - 2024)1Christian Weisgerber
27 Mar 24 `* Re: Vernor Vinge (1944 - 2024)4Robert Carnegie
27 Mar 24  +- Re: Vernor Vinge (1944 - 2024)1Tony Nance
27 Mar 24  `* Re: Vernor Vinge (1944 - 2024)2Paul S Person
28 Mar 24   `- Re: Vernor Vinge (1944 - 2024)1Cryptoengineer

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