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{{Short description|American computer scientist and writer (1944–2024)}}
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{{Infobox writer <!-- see Template:Infobox writer -->
| name             = Vernor Vinge
| image            = Vernor Vinge (cropped).jpg
| caption          = Vinge in 2006
| birth_name       = Vernor Steffen Vinge
| birth_date       = {{birth date|1944|10|2}}{{r|SFE}}
| birth_place      = [[Waukesha, Wisconsin]], U.S.{{r|SFE}}
| death_date       = {{death date and age|2024|3|20|1944|10|2}}
| death_place      = [[La Jolla, California]], U.S.
| occupation       = [[Computer scientist]]
| education        = [[University of California, San Diego]] ([[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]])
| period           = 1966–2011
| genre            = [[Science fiction]]
| notableworks     = {{unbulleted list |''[[True Names]]'' (1981)|''[[A Fire Upon the Deep]]'' (1992)|''The Coming Technological Singularity'' (1993)<ref name=Upcoming>{{cite web |last=Vinge |first=Vernor |date=March 1993 |title=The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era |url=http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/vinge/misc/singularity.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170508061150/http://edoras.sdsu.edu/~vinge/misc/singularity.html |archive-date=May 8, 2017 |url-status=live |publisher=[[San Diego State University]] |accessdate= July 17, 2021}}</ref>|''[[Fast Times at Fairmont High]]'' (2001)}}
| spouse           = {{marriage|[[Joan D. Vinge]]|1972|1979|end=div.}}
| awards           = [[Hugo Award]]s: <br />&nbsp; [[Hugo Award for Best Novel|Best Novel]]: 1993, 2000, 2007; <br />&nbsp; [[Hugo Award for Best Novella|Best Novella]]: 2003, 2005 <br />[[Prometheus Award]]s: <br />&nbsp; 1987, 2000, 2004, 2007, 2014 Special Award for Lifetime Achievement
}}

'''Vernor Steffen Vinge''' ({{IPAc-en|audio=En-us-Vernor Vinge.ogg|ˈ|v|ɜr|n|ər|_|ˈ|v|ɪ|n|dʒ|iː}}; October 2, 1944 – March 20, 2024) was an American [[science fiction author]] and professor. He taught mathematics and [[computer science]] at [[San Diego State University]]. He was the first wide-scale popularizer of the [[technological singularity]] concept and among the first authors to present a fictional "[[cyberspace]]".<ref name="Saffo 416–20">{{citation |last=Saffo |first=Paul |date=1991 |contribution=Consensual Realities in Cyberspace |editor-last=Denning |editor-first=Peter J. |title=Computers Under Attack: Intruders, Worms, and Viruses |location=New York |publisher=ACM |pages=416–20 |doi=10.1145/102616.102644 |isbn=0-201-53067-8}}. Revised and expanded from "Viewpoint", ''[[Communications of the ACM]]'' 32 (6): 664–65, 1989, {{doi|10.1145/63526.315953}}.</ref> He won the [[Hugo Award]] for his novels ''[[A Fire Upon the Deep]]'' (1992), ''[[A Deepness in the Sky|A&nbsp;Deepness in the Sky]]'' (1999), and ''[[Rainbows End (Vinge novel)|Rainbows End]]'' (2006), and novellas ''[[Fast Times at Fairmont High]]'' (2001) and ''[[The Cookie Monster (novella)|The Cookie Monster]]'' (2004).

==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>

==Personal life==
His former wife, [[Joan D. Vinge]], is also a science fiction author. They were married from 1972 to 1979.<ref>{{citation|title=[[Science Fact and Science Fiction: An Encyclopedia]]|first=Brian|last=Stableford|author-link=Brian Stableford|publisher=Routledge|year=2006|isbn=9781135923747|pages=551–552|contribution-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9ZpsBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA551|contribution=Vinge, Vernor (Steffen) (1944–)}}</ref>

Vernor Vinge died in [[La Jolla, California]] on March 20, 2024, at the age of 79. He had [[Parkinson's disease]].<ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=March 22, 2024 |title=Vernor Vinge (1944–2024) |url=https://locusmag.com/2024/03/vernor-vinge-1944-2024/ |access-date=March 23, 2024 |website=Locus Online |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Brin |first=David |date=March 21, 2024 |title=Vernor Vinge – the Man with Lamps on His Brows |url=https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2024/03/vernor-vinge-man-with-lamps-on-his-brows.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240321194743/https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2024/03/vernor-vinge-man-with-lamps-on-his-brows.html |archive-date=March 21, 2024 |access-date=March 21, 2024 |website=Contrary Brin}}</ref>

== Awards ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Year
!Title
!Award
!Category
!Result
!{{Abbr|Ref|Reference}}
|-
!1985
|''[[The Peace War]]''
|[[Hugo Award]]
|[[Hugo Award for Best Novel|Novel]]
|{{CFinalist}}
|<ref name="WWE-1985" />
|-
! rowspan="2" |1987
| rowspan="2" |''[[Marooned in Realtime]]''
|[[Hugo Award]]
|[[Hugo Award for Best Novel|Novel]]
|{{CFinalist}}
|<ref name="WWE-1987" />
|-
|[[Prometheus Award]]
|—
|{{Won}}
|
|-
!1992
| rowspan="4" |''[[A Fire Upon the Deep]]''
|[[Nebula Award]]
|[[Nebula Award for Best Novel|Novel]]
|{{CFinalist}}
|<ref name="WWE-1992">{{cite web |title=1992 Award Winners & Nominees |url=http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1992 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210712052447/http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1992 |archive-date=July 12, 2021 |access-date=August 12, 2010 |work=Worlds Without End}}</ref>
|-
! rowspan="3" |1993
|[[Hugo Award]]
|[[Hugo Award for Best Novel|Novel]]
|{{Won}}
|<ref name="WWE-1993" />
|-
|[[John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel|John W. Campbell Memorial Award]]
|—
|{{CFinalist}}
|<ref name="WWE-1993" />
|-
|[[Locus Award]]
|[[Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel|Science Fiction Novel]]
|{{Nom}}
|
|-
! rowspan="6" |2000
| rowspan="6" |''[[A Deepness in the Sky]]''
|[[Nebula Award]]
|[[Nebula Award for Best Novel|Novel]]
|{{CFinalist}}
|
|-
|[[Hugo Award]]
|[[Hugo Award for Best Novel|Novel]]
|{{Won}}
|
|-
|[[John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel|John W. Campbell Memorial Award]]
|—
|{{Won}}
|
|-
|[[Prometheus Award]]
|—
|{{Won}}
|
|-
|[[Locus Award]]
|[[Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel|Science Fiction Novel]]
|{{Nom}}
|
|-
|[[Arthur C. Clarke Award]]
|—
|{{Nom}}
|
|-
! rowspan="3" |2007
| rowspan="3" |''[[Rainbows End (Vinge novel)|Rainbows End]]''
|[[Hugo Award]]
|[[Hugo Award for Best Novel|Novel]]
|{{Won}}
|<ref name="WWE-2007"/>
|-
|[[Locus Award]]
|[[Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel|Science Fiction Novel]]
|{{Won}}
|<ref name="WWE-2007"/>
|-
|[[John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel|John W. Campbell Memorial Award]]
|—
|{{Nom}}
|<ref name="WWE-2007"/>
|}

== Bibliography ==

===Novels===
====Realtime/Bobble series====
* ''[[The Peace War]]'' (1984) {{ISBN|0-312-94342-3}}
* ''[[Marooned in Realtime]]'' (1986) {{ISBN|0-312-94295-8}}

====Zones of Thought series====
* ''[[A Fire Upon the Deep]]'' (1992)—Hugo '''winner''', 1993 (shared with ''[[Doomsday Book (novel)|Doomsday Book]]'');<ref name="WWE-1993" /> Nebula Award nominee, 1992;<ref name="WWE-1992" /> Locus SF Award nominee, 1993<ref name="WWE-1993" />
* ''[[A Deepness in the Sky]]'' (1999)—Hugo,<ref name="WWE-2000">{{cite web|url=http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=2000|title=2000 Award Winners & Nominees|work=Worlds Without End|access-date=August 12, 2010|archive-date=October 6, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091006102521/http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?Year=2000|url-status=live}}</ref> Campbell,<ref name="WWE-2000"/> and Prometheus Awards '''winner''', 2000; Nebula Award nominee, 1999;<ref name="WWE-1999">{{cite web|url=http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1999|title=1999 Award Winners & Nominees|work=Worlds Without End|access-date=August 12, 2010|archive-date=August 4, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090804024812/http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1999|url-status=live}}</ref> Clarke and Locus SF Awards nominee, 2000<ref name="WWE-2000"/>
* ''[[The Children of the Sky]]'' (2011)

====Standalone novels====
* ''[[Grimm's World]]'' (1969), expanded as ''[[Tatja Grimm's World]]'' (1987)
* ''[[The Witling]]'' (1976)
* ''[[Rainbows End (Vinge novel)|Rainbows End]]'' (2006) {{ISBN|0-312-85684-9}}—Hugo and Locus SF Awards '''winner''', 2007;<ref name="WWE-2007">{{cite web|url=http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=2007|title=2007 Award Winners & Nominees|work=Worlds Without End|access-date=August 12, 2010|archive-date=October 17, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171017205915/https://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=2007|url-status=live}}</ref> Campbell Award nominee, 2007<ref name="WWE-2007"/>

===Collections===
* ''Across Realtime'' (1986) {{ISBN|0-671-72098-8}}
** ''[[The Peace War]]''
** "[[The Ungoverned]]" (added in 1991 edition)
** ''[[Marooned in Realtime]]''
* ''True Names ... and Other Dangers'' (1987) {{ISBN|0-671-65363-6}}
** "[[Bookworm, Run!]]"
** "[[True Names]]" (1981, winner 2007 Prometheus Hall of Fame Award)
** "The Peddler's Apprentice" (with [[Joan D. Vinge]])
** "The Ungoverned" (occurs in the same milieu as ''The Peace War'' and ''Marooned in Realtime'')
** "Long Shot"
* ''Threats... and Other Promises'' (1988) {{ISBN|0-671-69790-0}} (These two volumes collect Vinge's short fiction through the late 1980s.)
** "Apartness"
** "Conquest by Default" (occurs in the same milieu as "Apartness")
** "The Whirligig of Time"
** "Gemstone"
** "Just Peace" (with William Rupp)
** "Original Sin"
** "The Blabber" (occurs in the same milieu as ''A Fire Upon the Deep'')
* ''True Names and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier'' (2001) {{ISBN|0-312-86207-5}} (contains "True Names" plus essays by others)
* ''[[The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge]]'' (2001) {{ISBN|0-312-87373-5}} (hardcover) or {{ISBN|0-312-87584-3}} (paperback) (This volume collects Vinge's short fiction through 2001 (except "True Names"), including Vinge's comments from the earlier two volumes.)
** "Bookworm, Run!"
** "The Accomplice"
** "The Peddler's Apprentice" (with [[Joan D. Vinge]])
** "The Ungoverned"
** "Long Shot"
** "Apartness"
** "Conquest by Default"
** "The Whirligig of Time"
** "Bomb Scare"
** "The Science Fair"
** "Gemstone"
** "Just Peace" (with William Rupp)
** "Original Sin"
** "The Blabber"
** "Win a Nobel Prize!" (originally published in ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'', Vol. 407 No. 6805 "Futures")<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Win a Nobel Prize!|last1=Vinge|first1=Vernor|journal=Nature|volume=407|issue=6805|page=679|date=October 12, 2000|doi=10.1038/35037684|pmid=11048698|bibcode=2000Natur.407..679V|doi-access=free}}{{subscription required}}</ref>
** "The Barbarian Princess" (this is also the first section of "Tatja Grimm's World")
** "Fast Times at Fairmont High" (occurs in the same milieu as ''Rainbows End''; winner 2002 Hugo Award for Best Novella<ref name="sfadb" />)

===Essays===
* "The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era" (1993),<ref name=Upcoming/> ''[[Whole Earth Review]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|title=The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era|date=1993|journal=Whole Earth Review|issue=Winter 1993|pages=11|bibcode=1993vise.nasa...11V|last1=Vinge|first1=Vernor}}</ref>
* "2020 Computing: The creativity machine" (2006), ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|title=2020 Computing: The creativity machine|last=Vinge|first=Vernor|date=March 23, 2006|journal=Nature|doi=10.1038/440411a|issn=0028-0836|issue=411|pages=411|volume=440|pmid=16554782|bibcode=2006Natur.440..411V|s2cid=4397608|doi-access=free}}</ref>
* "The Disaster Stack" (2017) ''Chasing Shadows''<ref>{{cite book |last=Brin |first=David |title=Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World |publisher=Tor Books |date=2017 |page=138 |isbn=9780765382580 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2vSiDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA138}}</ref>

===Uncollected short fiction===
* "A Dry Martini" (''The 60th [[Worldcon|World Science Fiction Convention]] ConJosé Restaurant Guide'', page 60)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://timetravelershow.com/shows/tts27.mp3 |title=Vernor Vinge reading "A Dry Martini", recorded live at Penguicon 6.0 |date=April 20, 2008 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110831053615/http://timetravelershow.com/shows/tts27.mp3 |archive-date=August 31, 2011 }} <!-- original link for reference: http://timetravelershow.com/2008/11/16/tts-27-live-vernor-vinge/ --></ref>
* "[[The Cookie Monster (novella)|The Cookie Monster]]" (''[[Analog Science Fiction]]'', October 2003) (winner 2004 Hugo Award for Best Novella)
* "Synthetic Serendipity", IEEE Spectrum Online, June 30, 2004<ref>{{cite web |url=https://spectrum.ieee.org/synthetic-serendipity |title=Synthetic Serendipity |first=Vernor |last=Vinge |publisher=[[IEEE Spectrum]] |date=June 30, 2004 |access-date=February 2, 2020 |archive-date=August 12, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200812063756/https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/networks/synthetic-serendipity |url-status=live }}</ref>
* "A Preliminary Assessment of the Drake Equation, Being an Excerpt from the Memoirs of Star Captain Y.-T. Lee" (2010) (''[[Frederik Pohl#Works about Pohl|Gateways: Original New Stories Inspired by Frederik Pohl]]'', 2010)
*"BFF's first adventure", (originally published in ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'', Vol 518 No 7540 "Futures")<ref>{{Cite journal |title=BFF's first adventure |last1=Vinge |first1=Vernor |journal=Nature |volume=518 |issue=7540 |page=568 |date=February 26, 2015 |doi=10.1038/518568a|bibcode=2015Natur.518..568V |doi-access=free }}</ref>
*"Legale", (originally published in ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'', Vol 548 No 7666 "Futures")<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Legale |last1=Vinge |first1=Vernor |journal=Nature |volume=548 |issue=7666 |page=254 |date=August 10, 2017 |doi=10.1038/548254a|bibcode=2017Natur.548..254V |doi-access=free }}</ref>

==References==
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<ref name=SFE>{{citation |url=https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/vinge_vernor |title=Vinge, Vernor |date=March 22, 2024 |encyclopedia=[[The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction]]}}</ref>
}}

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===About Vinge===
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160101202817/https://www.worldswithoutend.com/author.asp?ID=41 Vernor Vinge], at Worlds Without End
* {{cite news |first=Katie |last=Hafner |work=The New York Times |title=A Scientist's Art: Computer Fiction |page=G1 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/02/technology/a-scientist-s-art-computer-fiction.html?pagewanted=all |date=August 2, 2001}}

===Essays and speeches===
* [https://archive.today/20130418052436/http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Global/Singularity/sing.html The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era, 1993]
* [https://archive.org/download/conversationsnetwork_org/conversationsnetwork_org.zip/ITC.AC05-VernorVinge-2005.09.17.mp3 Accelerating Change 2005: Vernor Vinge Keynote Address] (64&nbsp;kbit/s MP3 audio recording, 40 minutes long)
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160218174215/http://longnow.org/seminars/02007/feb/15/what-if-the-singularity-does-not-happen/ Seminars About Long-term Thinking: Vernor Vinge] (Summary and MP3 audio recording of a 2007 speech, 91 minutes long)
* [http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v440/n7083/full/440411a.html "2020 Computing: The creativity machine"], from ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'' magazine, March 23, 2006.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160205064725/http://www.3pointd.com/20060908/vernor-vinge-paints-the-future-at-agc/ Vernor Vinge's keynote address at the 2006 Austin Games Conference.]
* [https://edoras.sdsu.edu/~vinge/misc/DisasterStack.htm The Disaster Stack (an early version)]

===Interviews===
* [https://freshairarchive.org/segments/writer-vernor-vinge Interview] on ''[[Fresh Air]]'', 2000 (audio)
* Interviews on the podcast series ''The Future and You'': [http://thefutureandyou.libsyn.com/april_8_2006_episode April 8, 2006], [http://thefutureandyou.libsyn.com/may_1_2006_episode May 1, 2006] (audio)
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20121020131800/http://instapundit.com/archives/029925.php Interview by Glenn Reynolds and Helen Smith], April 26, 2006 (podcast)
* [https://reason.com/2007/05/04/superhuman-imagination/ Interview] by ''[[Reason (magazine)|Reason]]'', 2007
* [http://www.singularityweblog.com/vernor-vinge-on-singularity-1-on-1-we-can-surpass-the-wildest-dreams-of-optimism/ Interview for the singularity symposium], 2011 (podcast)

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