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Vernor Vinge

Vinge, Vernor Steffen

October 2, 1944 – March 20, 2024 (aged 79)

Birth place: Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA

131 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
June 1965 22 Short Fiction Apartness New Worlds SF, June 1965
March 1966 8 Short Fiction Bookworm, Run! Analog Science Fiction -> Science Fact, March 1966
April 1967 119 Short Fiction The Accomplice If, April 1967
May 1968 54 Short Fiction Conquest by Default Analog Science Fiction -> Science Fact, May 1968
August 1970 170 Review Grimm's World Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, August 1970
September 1970 132 Review Grimm's World Amazing Science Fiction, September 1970
November 1970 28 Short Fiction Bomb Scare Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, November 1970
November 1970 22 Review Grimm's World Science Fiction Review, November 1970
December 1971 124 Short Fiction Just Peace Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, December 1971
August 1972 159 Short Fiction Long Shot Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, August 1972
December 1972 38 Short Fiction Original Sin Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, December 1972
August 1975 38 Short Fiction The Peddler's Apprentice Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, August 1975
January 1976 12 Review The Witling The Science Fiction Review Monthly, January 1976
April 1976 172 Review The Witling Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, April 1976
July 1976 29 Review The Witling Delap's F & SF Review, July 1976
November 1976 45 Review The Witling Vector 78
June 1981 157 Review Binary Star #5 Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, June 22, 1981
September 1981 6 Review Binary Star #5 Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, September 1981
October 1981 94 Review True Names Foundation, #23 October 1981
January 1983 10 Essay First Word (Omni, January 1983) Omni, January 1983
October 1983 90 Short Fiction Gemstone Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, October 1983
May 1984 10 Serial The Peace War (Part 1 of 4) Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, May 1984
June 1984 94 Serial The Peace War (Part 2 of 4) Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, June 1984
July 1984 116 Serial The Peace War (Part 3 of 4) Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, July 1984
August 1984 13 Review The Peace War Locus, #283 August 1984
August 1984 12 Serial The Peace War (Part 4 of 4) Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, August 1984
November 1984 38 Review The Peace War Fantasy Review, November 1984
January 1985 12|12.2 Review The Peace War Amazing Science Fiction, January 1985
April 1985 28 Review True Names Fantasy Review, April 1985
July 1985 14 Review True Names Amazing Stories, July 1985
May 1986 10 Serial Marooned in Realtime (Part 1 of 4) Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, May 1986
June 1986 128 Serial Marooned in Realtime (Part 2 of 4) Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, June 1986
July 1986 130 Serial Marooned in Realtime (Part 3 of 4) Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, July 1986
August 1986 17|17.1 Review Marooned in Realtime Locus, #307 August 1986
August 1986 108 Serial Marooned in Realtime (Part 4 of 4) Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, August 1986
September 1986 32 Review Marooned in Realtime Fantasy Review, September 1986
September 1986 12 Short Fiction The Barbarian Princess Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1986
October 1986 28 Review The Witling Fantasy Review, October 1986
December 1986 190|190.2 Essay Letter (Analog, December 1986) Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, December 1986
October 1987 19|19.4 Review True Names and Other Dangers Locus, #321 October 1987
January 1988 48 Review Tatja Grimm's World Science Fiction Chronicle, #100 January 1988
April 1988 Review Marooned in Realtime Paperback Inferno, #71
April 1988 Review The Peace War Paperback Inferno, #71
December 1989 190|190.2 Essay Letter (Analog, December 1989) Analog Science Fiction and Fact, December 1989
1990 66 Review Marooned in Realtime Science Fiction Review, Spring 1990
March 1990 68 Review The Witling Fear, March 1990
June 1990 65|65.2 Review Tatja Grimm's World Interzone, June 1990
June 1990 8 Review Tatja Grimm's World Paperback Inferno, #84
June 1990 65|65.3 Review The Whitling Interzone, June 1990
June 1990 8 Review The Witling Paperback Inferno, #84
March 1992 25 Review A Fire Upon the Deep Locus, #374 March 1992
March 1992 10 Interview Interview: Vernor Vinge (Part 1 of 3) Science Fiction Review, March 1992
April 1992 66 Review A Fire Upon the Deep Amazing Stories, April 1992
April 1992 63|63.2 Review A Fire Upon the Deep Interzone, April 1992
April 1992 Interview Interview: Vernor Vinge (Part 2 of 3) Science Fiction Review, April 1992
May 1992 52 Review A Fire Upon the Deep Locus, #376 May 1992
May 1992 32 Interview Interview: Vernor Vinge (Part 3 of 3) Science Fiction Review, May 1992
June 1992 95 Review A Fire Upon the Deep Science Fiction Eye, #10, June 1992
July 1992 33|33.02 Review A Fire Upon the Deep Science Fiction Chronicle, 153 July/August 1992
August 1992 21 Review A Fire Upon the Deep The New York Review of Science Fiction, August 1992
September 1992 165 Review A Fire upon the Deep Analog Science Fiction and Fact, September 1992
December 1992 25 Review A Fire Upon the Deep Vector 170
1993 72 Review A Fire Upon the Deep Quantum, Spring/Summer 1993
1993 125 Review A Fire upon the Deep Foundation, #57 Spring 1993
September 1993 42|42.3 Review A Fire Upon the Deep Australian Realms, September/October 1993
October 1993 30 Review A Fire Upon the Deep Vector 175
October 1993 44 Essay Letter (Locus #393) Locus, #393 October 1993
December 1993 37 Review Across Realtime Vector 176
1997 54 Interview Vernor Vinge Interview NonStop Science Fiction Magazine #3, 1997
1999 33 Review A Deepness in the Sky Nova Express, Fall/Winter 1999
March 1999 Review A Deepness in the Sky Science Fiction Weekly, 8 Mar 1999
March 1999 Review A Deepness in the Sky Science Fiction Weekly, 22 Mar 1999
April 1999 25 Review A Deepness in the Sky Locus, #459 April 1999
April 1999 54 Review A Deepness in the Sky Locus, #459 April 1999
May 1999 12 Review A Deepness in the Sky Science Fiction Age, May 1999
June 1999 Review A Deepness in the Sky Science Fiction Chronicle, #202 June 1999
June 1999 53 Review A Deepness in the Sky Interzone, June 1999
June 1999 38 Review A Deepness in the Sky The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 1999
July 1999 229 Review A Deepness in the Sky Analog Science Fiction and Fact, July-August 1999
July 1999 33 Review A Deepness in the Sky Vector 206
September 1999 137 Review A Deepness in the Sky Asimov's Science Fiction, September 1999
September 1999 35 Review A Deepness in the Sky Vector 207
October 1999 37 Review A Deepness in the Sky Aboriginal Science Fiction, Fall 1999
May 2000 35 Review A Deepness in the Sky Vector 211
May 2000 35 Review A Fire Upon the Deep Vector 211
May 2000 35 Review Across Realtime Vector 211
August 2000 15 Review A Deepness in the Sky The New York Review of Science Fiction, August 2000
October 2000 679 Short Fiction Win a Nobel Prize! Nature, October 12, 2000
January 2001 6 Interview Vernor Vinge: Singular Progress Locus, #480 January 2001
March 2001 4 Essay Read This (NYRSF, March 2001) The New York Review of Science Fiction, March 2001
July 2001 Review A Deepness in the Sky Strange Horizons, 9 July 2001
July 2001 Review A Fire Upon the Deep Strange Horizons, 9 July 2001
December 2001 45|45.4 Review The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge Science Fiction Chronicle, #219 December 2001
January 2002 15 Review Fast Times at Fairmont High Locus, #492 January 2002
March 2002 33 Review The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge Vector 222
June 2002 136 Review The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 2002
June 2002 136 Review True Names: and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 2002
September 2002 32 Review The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge Vector 225
December 2002 1 Review The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge The New York Review of Science Fiction, December 2002
September 2003 Interview Interview: Vernor Vinge Strange Horizons, 15 September 2003
October 2003 8 Short Fiction The Cookie Monster Analog Science Fiction and Fact, October 2003
April 2004 141|141.2 Essay Letter (Analog, April 2004) Analog Science Fiction and Fact, April 2004
April 2004 142|142.1 Essay Letter (Analog, April 2004) [2] Analog Science Fiction and Fact, April 2004
July 2004 35 Review The Peace War Vector 236
2005 31 Essay On "The Cookie Monster" The SFWA Bulletin, Spring 2005
April 2006 27 Review Rainbows End Locus, #543 April 2006
May 2006 23 Review Rainbows End Locus, #544 May 2006
June 2006 63 Review Rainbow's End Interzone, June 2006
June 2006 23 Review Rainbows End Locus, #545 June 2006
June 2006 Review Rainbows End Strange Horizons, 5 June 2006
July 2006 230 Review Rainbow's End Analog Science Fiction and Fact, July-August 2006
July 2006 17 Review Rainbows End The New York Review of Science Fiction, July 2006
September 2006 31 Review Rainbows End Vector 249
July 2007 17 Review Rainbows End Subterranean Online, Summer 2007
January 2008 Interview Countdown to Singularity: A Conversation with Vernon Vinge Clarkesworld Magazine, January 2008
October 2008 Review The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge StarShipSofa, No 46
December 2008 6 Interview Vernor Vinge: Surviving in Extremistan Locus, #575 December 2008
November 2009 Interview InterGalactic Interview with Vernor Vinge Part 1 Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, #15, November 2009
January 2010 Interview InterGalactic Interview with Vernor Vinge Part 2 Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, #16, January 2010
December 2010 7 Essay The Care and Feeding of Authors The New York Review of Science Fiction, December 2010
November 2011 Review Rainbows End StarShipSofa, No 211
November 2011 23 Review The Children of the Sky Locus, #610 November 2011
January 2012 Review The Children of the Sky Strange Horizons, 30 January 2012
March 2012 51 Review The Children of the Sky The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March-April 2012
April 2012 38 Interview In Deep Bull Spec, Spring 2012
May 2012 |6 Interview Interview: Vernor Vinge Lightspeed, May 2012
April 2013 Review A Deepness in the Sky StarShipSofa, No 285
February 2015 Short Fiction BFF's First Adventure Nature, February 26, 2015
August 2017 Short Fiction Legale Nature, August 10, 2017
March 2024 B12|3 Review A Fire Upon the Deep The New York Times, March 30, 2024
March 2024 B12|2 Review True Names The New York Times, March 30, 2024

YearAwardCategoryTitleStatus
1982 Hugo Award Best Novella True Names Finalist
1982 Locus Poll Award Best Novella True Names Nominee
1982 Nebula Award Novella True Names Nominee
1985 Hugo Award Best Novel The Peace War Finalist
1985 Locus Poll Award Best SF Novel The Peace War Nominee
1985 Prometheus Award Prometheus Award for Best Libertarian SF Novel The Peace War Nominee
1987 Hugo Award Best Novel Marooned in Realtime Finalist
1987 Hugo Award Best Novelette The Barbarian Princess Finalist
1987 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette The Barbarian Princess Nominee
1987 Locus Poll Award Best SF Novel Marooned in Realtime Nominee
1987 Prometheus Award Prometheus Award for Best Libertarian SF Novel Marooned in Realtime Winner
1988 Locus Poll Award Best Collection True Names ... and Other Dangers Nominee
1989 Locus Poll Award Best Collection Threats ... and Other Promises Nominee
1989 Locus Poll Award Best Novella The Blabber Nominee
1993 Hugo Award Best Novel A Fire Upon the Deep Winner
1993 John W. Campbell Memorial Award Best Science Fiction Novel A Fire Upon the Deep Finalist
1993 Locus Poll Award Best SF Novel A Fire Upon the Deep Finalist
1993 Nebula Award Novel A Fire Upon the Deep Nominee
1993 SF Chronicle Award Novel A Fire Upon the Deep Winner
1995 Premio Ignotus Mejor novela extranjera - Best Foreign Novel Un fuego sobre el abismo Runner-up
1996 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Traduction Un feu sur l'abîme Nominee
1996 Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis Bester ausländischer SF-Roman Ein Feuer auf der Tiefe Nominee
1999 HOMer Award Novel A Deepness in the Sky Nominee
2000 Arthur C. Clarke Award Best Science Fiction Novel A Deepness in the Sky Nominee
2000 British Fantasy Award August Derleth Fantasy Award (Best Novel) A Deepness in the Sky Nominee
2000 Hugo Award Best Novel A Deepness in the Sky Winner
2000 John W. Campbell Memorial Award Best Science Fiction Novel A Deepness in the Sky Winner
2000 Locus Poll Award Best SF Novel A Deepness in the Sky Finalist
2000 Nebula Award Novel A Deepness in the Sky Nominee
2000 Prometheus Award Prometheus Award for Best Libertarian SF Novel A Deepness in the Sky Winner
2002 Hugo Award Best Novella Fast Times at Fairmont High Winner
2002 Locus Poll Award Best Collection The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge Finalist
2002 Locus Poll Award Best Novella Fast Times at Fairmont High Runner-up
2003 Analog Award Best Novella The Cookie Monster Finalist
2004 Hugo Award Best Novella The Cookie Monster Winner
2004 Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis Bestes ausländisches Werk Eine Tiefe am Himmel Winner
2004 Locus Poll Award Best Novella The Cookie Monster Winner
2004 Prometheus Award Prometheus Hall of Fame Award The Ungoverned Winner
2005 Locus Poll Award Best Short Story Synthetic Serendipity Nominee
2005 Nebula Award Novella The Cookie Monster Nominee
2007 Hugo Award Best Novel Rainbows End Winner
2007 John W. Campbell Memorial Award Best Science Fiction Novel Rainbows End Nominee
2007 Locus Poll Award Best SF Novel Rainbows End Winner
2007 Prometheus Award Prometheus Award for Best Libertarian SF Novel Rainbows End Nominee
2007 Prometheus Award Prometheus Hall of Fame Award True Names Winner
2008 Premio Ignotus Mejor cuento extranjero - Best Foreign Story El monstruo de las galletas Winner
2012 Hugo Award Best Novel The Children of the Sky Nominee
2012 Locus Online 20th Century Novella True Names Nominee
2012 Locus Online 20th Century Science Fiction Novel A Fire Upon the Deep Nominee
2012 Locus Online 20th Century Science Fiction Novel A Deepness in the Sky Nominee
2012 Locus Online 21st Century Novella The Cookie Monster Nominee
2012 Locus Online 21st Century Novella Fast Times at Fairmont High Finalist
2012 Locus Online 21st Century Science Fiction Novel Rainbows End Nominee
2012 Locus Poll Award Best SF Novel The Children of the Sky Finalist
2012 Prometheus Award Prometheus Award for Best Libertarian SF Novel The Children of the Sky Nominee
2017 Prometheus Award Prometheus Hall of Fame Award Conquest by Default Nominee
2018 Prometheus Award Prometheus Hall of Fame Award Conquest by Default Nominee
2019 Prometheus Award Prometheus Hall of Fame Award Conquest by Default Nominee
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