Vernor Vinge Dies: Hugo Award-Winner Credited With Insights Into ‘The Singularity’ And ‘Cyberspace’ Was 79
deadline.comVernor Vinge, whose expansive science fiction brought the concepts of The Singularity and cyberspace to a wider audience, died from Parkinson’s disease at age 79 on March 20 in La Jolla, California.
The confirmation came in a Facebook tribute from fellow author David Brin. “A titan in the literary genre that explores a limitless range of potential destinies, Vernor enthralled millions with tales of plausible tomorrows, made all the more vivid by his polymath masteries of language, drama, characters, and the implications of science,” wrote Brin.
Vinge won Hugo Awards for his novels A Fire Upon the Deep (1993), A Deepness in the Sky (2000), and Rainbows End (2007). He also won Hugos for novellas Fast Times at Fairmont High (2002) and The Cookie Monster (2004).
Vinge’s novella True Names (1981) is frequency cited as the first presentation of an in-depth look at the concept of “cyberspace.” The author first presented the term “singularity” in 1983, borrowed from the concept of a singularity in spacetime in physics.
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