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.

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

* 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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 ".

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

* 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.

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

" 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.

From Joan D. Vinge's The Snow Queen.

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

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

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.

* 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.

* Sherkaner Underhill, fictional non-human character in the novel A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge

Laputa: Castle in the Sky ( 1986 ) recounts the adventure of two orphans seeking a magical castle-island that floats in the sky ; My Neighbor Totoro ( Tonari no Totoro, 1988 ) tells of the adventure of two girls and their interaction with forest spirits ; and Kiki's Delivery Service ( 1989 ), adapted from a novel by Eiko Kadono, tells the story of a small-town girl who leaves home to begin life as a witch in a big city.

In the 1950 novel Pebble in the Sky, science fiction novel writer Isaac Asimov depicted a future Earth with a largely radioactive crust, humans precariously surviving in the uncontaminated areas in between.

Sonic screwdrivers appear in the 1980s Fighting Fantasy book Sky Lord ( although it is never used for anything in the book ), the Iron Man novel Femme Fatales, and the Red Dwarf novel Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers.

* Bel Arvardan, in Isaac Asimov's novel Pebble in the Sky

* Kirby Larson's young adult novel, Hattie Big Sky, explores one woman's attempts to " improve " on her family's homestead before the deadline to retain her rights.

Farmer In The Sky is a 1953 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein about a teenaged boy who emigrates with his family to Jupiter's moon Ganymede, which is in the process of being terraformed.

There is a reference back to the events of Asimov's novel Pebble in the Sky: we learn that the restoration of Earth's soil was indeed attempted but was abandoned.

The first time it was acknowledged in novel form was in Pebble in the Sky.

The series is set in the same universe as Asimov's first published novel, Pebble in the Sky, although Foundation takes place approximately ten thousand years later.

This precept was maintained in the pages of his later novel Pebble in the Sky, wherein Imperial archaeologist Bel Arvardan refers to ancient human strata discovered in the Sirius sector dating back " some 50, 000 years ".

* Pebble in the Sky ( 1950 ), his first novel

Pebble in the Sky was originally written in the summer of 1947 under the title " Grow Old with Me " for Startling Stories, whose editor Sam Merwin, Jr. had approached Asimov to write a forty thousand word short novel for the magazine.

Doohan played the lead role in the CBC TV drama production Flight into Danger written by Arthur Hailey who turned it into the novel Runway Zero-Eight, later adapted as Terror in the Sky.

Orphans of the Sky is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, consisting of two parts: " Universe " ( Astounding Science Fiction, May 1941 ) and its sequel, " Common Sense " ( Astounding Science Fiction, October 1941 ).

* The Star Trek novel Strangers from the Sky by Margaret Wander Bonanno has Captain Kirk using Dreamtime to investigate an altered reality.

He had already included a kind of time-travel in his 1950 novel Pebble in the Sky, though there it was a one-way trip.

Mirbeau then underwent a grave existential and literary crisis, yet during this time, he still published in serial form a pre-existentialist novel about the artist ’ s fate, Dans le ciel ( In the Sky ), introducing the figure of a painter directly modeled on Van Gogh, Lucien.

Robert Heinlein's Science Fiction novel " Farmer in the Sky ", which depicts future colonists on Ganymede and takes up consciously many of the themes of the 19th century American frontier and homesteading, also includes a character who is known as " Johnny Appleseed " and like the historical one is involved in planting and spreading apple trees.

* In the young adult novel Under a War-Torn Sky, the main character Henry Forester co-pilots Out of the Blue, a U. S. B-24 Liberator serving in the Royal Air Force.

Pebble in the Sky is a science fiction novel by American writer Isaac Asimov, published in 1950.

Pebble in the Sky was originally written in the summer of 1947 under the title " Grow Old with Me " for Startling Stories, whose editor Sam Merwin, Jr. had approached Asimov to write a forty thousand word short novel for the magazine.

He finished his American Revolution series with Eagle in the Sky in 1948, wrote a popular novel about the famous buccaneer, Henry Morgan called Cutlass Empire in 1949, and started a trilogy on the Civil War in 1951.