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RIP Vernor Vinge.
The Zones of Thought novels are some of my favorite space operas, with ideas as challenging and characters as memorable as any science fiction I've read.
https://transfer-orbit.ghost.io/vernor-vinge-singularity-scie…

Sad week ->
Vernor Vinge, father of the tech singularity, has died at age 79 | Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/03/vernor-vinge-father-of-the-tech-singularity-has-died-a…

Vernor Vinge, father of the tech singularity, has died at age 79
Vinge won multiple Hugo awards and created a sci-fi concept that drives AI researchers.

q: what's your favorite sci-fi novel?
a: Tough question, because most of the ones I'm fond of, I read over a decade ago, and I'm not sure I'll still like them now. Some favorites that I've read or reread in recent years:
- A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
- All Systems Red by Martha Wells
- Blindsight by Peter Watts
- Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Glasshouse by Charles Stross
- Lady of Mazes by Karl Schroeder
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Rainbows end.
The book, written in 2006, was set in 2025 in San Diego. Its author, Vernor Vinge, died yesterday, March 20, 2024, in nearby La Jolla, at the age of 79.
Rainbows end explores themes such as shared realities, digital surveillance, and the digitisation of the world, years before Marc Andreessen proclaimed that "software is eating the word", describing it much more colorfully and rich than Andreessen ever did.
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