Re: Vernor Vinge (1944 - 2024)

On 3/22/2024 5:06 AM, D wrote:

  On Fri, 22 Mar 2024, Chris Buckley wrote:
 

On 2024-03-22, Ted Nolan <tednolan> <ted@loft.tnolan.com> wrote:

In article <uticjg$2ffb5$3@dont-email.me>,
Lynn McGuire  <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

On 3/21/2024 8:24 AM, James Nicoll wrote:

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

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https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/03/vernor-vinge-father-of-the-tech-singularity-has-died-at-age-79/
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RIP.  I always thought his "Peace War" novels were his best works.  And
his "Rainbows End" book was neat.
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Lynn
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I always remember encountering him first with a story about a mission on a
floating world to save an SF magazine's archives (but there's more going
on than the protag understands)..  I really liked that.
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I liked the bobble stories well enough, but wasn't really motivated
to seek him out.

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Both _A Fire Upon the Deep_ and _A Deepness in the Sky_ are in my list of
absolute top Favorites.  The novella _True Names_ is another Favorite, having
a large impact when I first read it (it was the first real introduction
of cyberspace.)  All three of these fell into a rare category for me: books
that upon finishing my first reading demanded an immediate re-read.
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Chris

 I read and like all three. Out of those True Names is my favourite. RIP.

I was also blown away by True Names. At that time I was already deep
into Usenet, and its world seemed just around the corner.
AFUTD and ADITS were also great - I loved the idea of the Zones of
Thought.
The Zones were, to some extent, a mechanism to allow telling
human stories in a universe where Technological Singularities
were also possible. His essay on the Singularity made a very
deep impression on me when it came out.
pt