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A Fire Upon the Deep
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- 1Remembering Vernor Vinge, Hugo-winning science fiction author▼Born this day: 10/02/1944 (d. 03/20/2024) Vernor Steffen Vinge was an American science fiction author and professor. He
Vernor Steffen Vinge, the American science fiction author and mathematics professor, was born on 2 October 1944 and died on 20 March 2024. Readers are marking his birthday by celebrating his legacy, including his Hugo Award-winning novels A Fire Upon the Deep (1992) and A Deepness in the Sky (1999), and his influence on ideas about technological singularity.