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" 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.
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
In Vernor Vinge's book Marooned in Realtime, flying personal autons, autonomous robotic devices, serve the " High-Techs " as bodyguards or sensory enhancement.
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

Vernor and True
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.
* 2007 – Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here and Vernor Vinge, True Names
True Names is the science fiction novella which brought Vernor Vinge to prominence in 1981.

Vernor and virtual
* 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.

Vernor and world
* Vernor Vinge uses it in his novel Rainbows End to illustrate the struggle between encouraging technological advancement and protecting the world from new weapons technologies.
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.
The 1984 novel The Peace War by Vernor Vinge features a " Peace Authority " created when military research scientists develop a device called a " bobbler " and use it to take over the world and enforce world peace in a very similar fashion.

Vernor and which
The enforceability of shrink wrap contracts has been an issue of controversy as demonstrated in a few notable cases, Vernor v. Autodesk and ProCD, Inc. v. Zeidenberg both of which cited the Step-Saver case.
Good and Vernor Vinge regarding an " intelligence explosion ", or Singularity, which is predicted to follow the creation of sufficiently advanced AI.
* 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.

Vernor and is
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.
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.
Crypto-anarchism or crypto-anarchy, as described by Vernor Vinge, is a cyber-spatial realization of anarcho-capitalism, employing cryptography to enable individuals to make consensual economic arrangements and to transcend national boundaries.
* In A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge, the destruction of a human civilization is preceded by an RKV assault.
In Vernor v. Autodesk, Inc. the 9th Circuit created a three-factor test to decide whether a particular software licensing agreement is successful in creating a licensing relationship with the end user.
In Vernor, Autodesk's license agreement specified that it retains title to the software and the user is only granted a non-exclusive license.
* Fast Times at Fairmont High, a novella by Vernor Vinge is named in reference to the film.
* Vernor Vinge in the novel Marooned in Realtime, p. 174 ( although the object is described as being a naked black hole ).
It should be noticed that the form of the relationship determines if it is a lease or a purchase, for example UMG v. Augusto or Vernor v. Autodesk, Inc.
Theories as to the reason for the claimed change in flavor include that the secret formula has been changed to use new products not originally available to Vernor, such as high fructose corn syrup ; that it seems to have less carbonation than formerly ; and that Vernors is no longer aged four years, but three in oak barrels.
The Peace War is a science fiction novel by American writer Vernor Vinge, about authoritarianism and technological progress.
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 term " transapient " was chosen because it is more generic than " posthuman ", and more precise than the alternative term of " powers " coined by Vernor Vinge.
While many have suggested accelerating change, the popularity of this theory in modern times is closely associated with various advocates of the technological singularity, such as Vernor Vinge and Ray Kurzweil.
The building is three stories high and almost an entire city block on the intersection of Vernor and Dix Streets.
It is located outside of the neighborbood at 8733 West Vernor in the Springwells neighborhood.
The Cookie Monster is a novella by Vernor Vinge.

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