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Journal Article
Vernor Vinge: An Introduction
2008
Overview
Vernor Vinge used to be a part-time science fiction writer, turning out an Analog story every now and then - important stories like \"Run, Bookworm, Run!\" and \"True Names,\" later to be expanded into books. \"True Names\" appeared in 1981, and arguably prefigured the cyberpunk movement, three years before Neuromancer, In 2000, he retired from his day job as a professor at San Diego State University, to write full time. Reading about the Singularity, and thinking about its effect on science fiction, makes me nostalgic for the Fredric Brown 1945 story \"The Waveries,\" where an invasion of dumb brute creatures who eat electricity forces humanity back into nineteenth century technology.
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International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts,The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts,Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts
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