" Other important predecessors include Alfred Bester's two most celebrated novels, The Demolished Man and The Stars My Destination, as well as Vernor Vinge's novella True Names.

Concern about the rapid pace of technological change crystallized around the concept of the technological singularity, popularized by Vernor Vinge's novel Marooned in Realtime and then taken up by other authors.

Alastair Reynolds's Revelation Space series, Peter F. Hamilton's Void, Night's Dawn and Pandora's Star series, and Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky are newer examples of this genre.

Vernor Vinge's True Names, published in 1981, imagines a virtual world which is probably the first to represent a metaverse.

The poem was referenced in Vernor Vinge's hard science fiction novel A Fire Upon the Deep.

* Manhattan features in Vernor Vinge's 1985 science-fiction novella The Ungoverned.

The small size of Usenet in its youthful days, and Spencer's early involvement, made him a well-recognised participant ; this is commemorated in Vernor Vinge's 1992 novel A Fire Upon the Deep.

* Another name for stasis ( fiction ) in Vernor Vinge's Peace Authority science fiction series

This " something else " is the sum of all human knowledge, a concept similar to Vernor Vinge's technological singularity.

* Canberra, a fictional planet mentioned in Vernor Vinge's science fiction books.

Vernor Vinge's short story " The Ungoverned " depicts anarcho-capitalists defending against an invading government.

A more limited form of stasis field is the " bobble ", found in Vernor Vinge's Peace Authority setting.

* Invisible Hand, a starship in Vernor Vinge's 1999 novel, " A Deepness in the Sky "

* In Vernor Vinge's 1972 short story " Long Shot ", the story of an attempt at embryo space colonization is told from the point of view of the artificial intelligence bearing the embryo through interstellar space.

* Straumli Blight or The Blight, a malevolent quasi-Power in the Vernor Vinge's novel A Fire Upon the Deep

The Bussard ramjet is a theoretical method of spacecraft propulsion proposed in 1960 by the physicist Robert W. Bussard, popularized by Poul Andersons novel Tau Zero, Larry Niven in his Known Space series of books, Vernor Vinge in his Zones of Thought series, and referred to by Carl Sagan in the television series and book Cosmos.

* The author of this book, Vernor Vinge, once cited the earlier, non-fiction book After Man: A Zoology of the Future by Dougal Dixon as a very important inspiration for him, which helped him greatly to write this book.

* 1987 – Vernor Vinge, Marooned in Realtime

* Vernor Vinge in the novel Marooned in Realtime, p. 174 ( although the object is described as being a naked black hole ).

Marooned in Realtime is a 1986 murder mystery and time-travel science fiction novel by American writer Vernor Vinge, about a small, time-displaced group of people who may be the only survivors of a technological singularity or alien invasion.

The mathematician Vernor Vinge popularized his ideas about exponentially accelerating technological change in the SF novel Marooned in Realtime ( 1986 ), set in a world of rapidly accelerating progress leading to the emergence of more and more sophisticated technologies separated by shorter and shorter time intervals, until a point beyond human comprehension is reached.

* Vernor Vinge, Marooned in Realtime

The Ungoverned is a 1985 science fiction novella by Vernor Vinge, set between his novels The Peace War and Marooned in Realtime.

When Vernor was called off to serve in the war, he stored the syrup base of 19 ingredients, including ginger, vanilla and other natural flavorings, in an oak cask.

The term was popularized by science fiction writer Vernor Vinge, who argues that artificial intelligence, human biological enhancement, or brain-computer interfaces could be possible causes of the singularity.

Patrolman George Kimmell, of McClellan Station, said he would recommend a special safety citation for Ralph Sisk, 9230 Vernor east, a third grader at the Scripps School, for his assistance in the case.

A Fire Upon the Deep is a science fiction novel by American writer Vernor Vinge, a space opera involving superhuman intelligences, aliens, variable physics, space battles, love, betrayal, genocide, and a conversation medium resembling Usenet.

Vernor Vinge, Elizabeth Moon, Jason Jones, L. A. Graf ,< ref > and Dan Simmons.

The term " cyberspace " was first used by the cyberpunk science fiction author William Gibson, though the concept was described somewhat earlier, for example in the Vernor Vinge short story " True Names ," and even earlier in John M. Ford's novel, Web of Angels.

Some hard SF authors have distinguished themselves as working scientists, including Gregory Benford, Geoffrey A. Landis and David Brin, while mathematician authors include Rudy Rucker and Vernor Vinge.

It should be noted that the ansible has been adopted by several other science fiction and fantasy authors, such as Orson Scott Card, Elizabeth Moon, and Vernor Vinge.

Futurists such as Ray Kurzweil, Bruce Sterling, and Vernor Vinge believe that the exponential improvement described by Moore's law will ultimately lead to a technological singularity: a period where progress in technology occurs almost instantly.

* Vernor v. Autodesk, Inc.

* The books Halting State by Charles Stross and Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge and the Daemon series by Daniel Suarez include augmented reality primarily in the form of virtual overlays over the real world.

In November 2003, a mammoth was found buried in a sand pit in Clute by a backhoe operator for Vernor Material & Equipment Co.

Example contract corporations in this story include Big Al's Protection Racket ( a police service ) and Justice, Inc. Anarcho-capitalism is also discussed in Vinge's novels The Peace War and Marooned in Realtime, which both occur in the same literary milieu as " The Ungoverned ".

Vinge's novel, A Deepness in the Sky ( 1999 ), is a prequel to A Fire Upon the Deep set 20, 000 years earlier and featuring Pham Nuwen.

Vinge's Children of the Sky, " a near-term sequel to A Fire Upon the Deep ", set ten years later, was released in October 2011.

Vinge's former wife, Joan D. Vinge, has also written stories in the Zones of Thought universe, based on his notes.

From Joan D. Vinge's The Snow Queen.

* The Snow Queen: The fable inspired Joan D. Vinge's science-fantasy novel which added interstellar travel, sea-dwelling sentient mammals, and a galaxy-wide conspiracy to the basic love story.

Vinge's characters speculate that the Spiders descend from an ancient star-faring civilization, and that the anti-gravity material and other strange artifacts have connections with that civilization.

Vinge's more recent novel A Deepness in the Sky involves a stateless nonhuman society.