Source: Boing Boing
Article note: Aw man, "True Names" and his Zones of Thought books ("A Fire Upon the Deep" and even more "A Deepness in the Sky") are things that I refer to all the time because they shaped how I think about the world.
Triple Hugo Award-winning author Vernor Vinge died Wednesday at 79.
Vinge sold his first science-fiction story in 1964, "Apartness", which appeared in the June 1965 issue of New Worlds.
In 1971, he received a PhD (Math) from UCSD, and the next year began teaching at San Diego State University.
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