Vernor Vinge News, Pictures & Buzz

100 of the best science fiction novels of all time  Mooresville Tribune

Geisel Library, UC San Diego's 'mother ship,' turns 50  La Jolla Light

The heart of manipulation is to empathise without being touched. — Vernor Vinge  The Tribune

Five SFF Books With Dogs (and Dog-Adjacent Beings) as Key Characters  tor.com

33 Best Cyberpunk Books of All-Time (2020)  Nerd Much?

Protests and imaginings - Counterpoint  ABC News

SF Adventure With a Bit of Everything: Gryphon by Crawford Kilian  tor.com

Five Strategies for Hiding a “Lost” Civilization  tor.com

Space Opera Done Right: Primary Inversion by Catherine Asaro  tor.com

Read Highlights from Christopher Paolini and Brandon Sanderson In Conversation at TorCon!  tor.com

Paul Di Filippo Reviews The Last Human by Zack Jordan  Locus Online

Far From Any Star: Five Stories About Rogue Worlds  tor.com

Books That Grab You  tor.com

The Power of Equine Names  tor.com

Google AI Scientists –“Developing Algorithms that Mirror Darwinian Evolution”  The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel

Hop in and shut out: This is the time when you want to read yourself out of the moment  The Hindu

Looking for dark matter: Two novel methods of searching for dark matter by measuring tiny perturbations in fundamental constants  Science Daily

How long have we got before humans are replaced by artificial intelligence?  Scroll.in

Five Massive SFF Books to Read While You're Social-Distancing  tor.com

Canadian authors on the passages and poems they turn to in times of trouble  The Globe and Mail

woodyatpch: @JenHoward Real all the Dorothy Dunnett! Start with the House of Niccolo series. And Neal Stephens~#&!’s Baroque Cyc… https://t.co/nzfxDWJqlE

DingD^#19176545: @bluepointgames or how about a m~# effect style game based ^# Vernor Vinge novel A Fire Up^# the Deep . :)

mandalorchick: @PlankySmith @edroso You left out all the sci fi authors who had various deux ex machina to make libertarianism wor… https://t.co/BW5DBBNWi7

nzbensen: @adamjohns!##%NYC So was Vernor Vinge, so much so that around 2010 he published a novel set in 2017 in which they’re everywhere

arnicas: @EngNadeau @vboykis also +1 Vernor Vinge, amazing space opera

am currently reading "The Children of The Sky" and I come across this word. "Anguille borkner" seems like some kind of skill. It has been a long time since I read "A Fire Upon the Deep", I don't remember anything related to this word. I am currently reading "The Children of The Sky" and I come across this word. "Anguille borkner" seems like some kind of skill. It has been a long time since I read "A Fire Upon the Deep", I don't remember anything related to this word.

Greetings. This may be a strange request but I need to know of fictional pieces featuring Zheng He (I believe his name used to be romanized differently but I'm not sure) as a main character or at least a character with some relevance. I don't care about the format: Movies, Comics, Manga, TV Shows, Books, it's all good, it doesn't matter if it is realistic or more out there with supernatural elements. Documentaries are not exactly what I'm looking for but if you know any I'd appreciate it as well. Thanks in advance. @Petrusclavus If you could recall the actual name of the series and some of the books that'd be great. Maybe I can find translations somewhere, it's a something at least.

I'm 65 pages into Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep and I am little confused. What exactly are Zones of Thought? It seems to be boundaries between radically different stages of technology except if one technology from one zone is brought into another zone then that technology won't work. Why not? Different physics? AI cannot exist in the Slow Zone but can exist in the Beyond? What's preventing intelligence existing in the Unthinking Depths? I feel like I'm reading a sequel to a book I should have read first.

Looking for some good sci-fi books to read over the summer.