RIP Vernor Vinge

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I remember picking up some of his books from a second hand store when I was a teen and struggling the first few times I tried to read one. Then one day it clicked for me and I plowwed through the rest of it.

So many of this ideas and worlds could have had dozens of books set in the yet he wrote relatively few of them. Perhaps that's what helped make them so special

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Vernor Vinge obituary

Sci-fi author and computer scientist who coined the term ‘the Singularity’ to describe the rapid acceleration of AI
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Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

i mean it's only at the turn of the century that we banned restaurant smoking and shes been doing tv/comedy clubs since the 80s, so thats a ton of secondhand smoke, in those night clubs while also being in a profession where everyone also smokes, she also grew up in the 60s where everyone smoked...
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I had a similar experience. Had an uncle who was into sci-fi, he gave me A Fire Upon the Deep when I was a kid and I really couldn't make sense of it. Came back to it as an adult and couldn't believe what I was reading.
 
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A Fire Upon the Deep is the paperback I had to buy twice (because the previous fell apart).

I also had the CD-Rom version with the author's notes (which include all the bits of worldbuilding you barely see, like the fact that Twirlip of the Mists seem to know exactly what's with the Blight, but alas his knowledge is lost from translations)
 
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