Vernor Vinge

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  • Bibliography:
    15 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1976
  • Latest Book:
    October 2011
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Full Series List in Order

Fire upon the Deep

1 - A Fire upon the Deep (Apr-1992)
1.5 - After the Battle on Starship Hill (Sep-2011)
2 - The Children of the Sky (Oct-2011)

Book List in Order: 15 titles

  • The Witling

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    THE PRINCE WAS A HALFWIT... Oh, he was intelligent enough, no doubt about that. But he couldn't teleport --in fact, he couldn't even seng. Maybe that's why he took such a liking to the two shipwrecked travelers from Earth. Imagine: a whole planet ...

  • The Peace War

    First in a quintessential hard-science fiction adventure, Hugo Award-winning author Vernor Vinge's The Peace War follows a scientist determined to put an end to the militarization of his greatest invention--and of the government behind it. The Peace ...

  • Marooned in Realtime

    Multiple Hugo Award winner Vernor Vinge takes readers on a fifty-million-year trip to a future where humanity's fate will be decided in a dangerous game of high-tech survival. In this taut thriller, a Hugo finalist for Best Novel, nobody knows why th...

  • Tatja Grimm's World

    Multiple Hugo Award winner Vernor Vinge's first full-length novelAs a mud-spattered youngster, Tatja quickly realized she was different from the stone-age primitives with whom she grew up. Her insatiable curiosity and thirst for knowledge could not b...

  • True Names and Other Dangers

    Since its first publication in 1981, the short novel True Names by Vernor Vinge has been considered one of the most seminal science fiction works to present a fully fleshed-out concept of cyberspace. A finalist for the Hugo and Nebula Awards for best...

  • Threats and Other Promises

  • Across Realtime

    'The intricately plotted progress of characters from near to farfuture...on an Earth which, like an abandon playground, has long ago been left behind by an evolving humanity...human-scale action within a vast canvas' The Excyclopedia of Science Ficti...

  • A Fire upon the Deep

    Fire upon the Deep - 1

    A space saga awesome in conception, and a riveting novel of conflict, love, loss, and survival... "Fleeing a menace of galactic proportions, a spaceship crashes on an unfamiliar world, leaving the survivors-a pair of children-to the not-so-tender ...

  • A Deepness in the Sky

    After thousands of years of searching, humans stand on the verge of first contact with an alien race. Two human groups: the Qeng Ho, a culture of free traders, and the Emergents, a ruthless society based on the technological enslavement of minds. ...



  • The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge

    Since his first published story, "Apartness," appeared in 1965, Vernor Vinge has forged a unique and awe-inspiring career in science fiction as his work has grown and matured. He is now one of the most celebrated science fiction writers in the field ...

  • Rainbows End

    The Mysterious Stranger and Mr. Rabbit World-famous poet Robert Gu missed twenty years of progress while he nearly died from Alzheimer's. Now, when he awakens in San Diego, in the year 2025, with his mind and health restored. reality's a shock. Book...

  • Fast Times at Fairmont High

    In a near future where wireless mind links and wearable computers blur the line between artificial reality and "real" reality, it's final exam time at San Diego's Fairmont Junior High. Juan Orozco and his friends have a killer idea for their off-line...

  • Zones of Thought

  • After the Battle on Starship Hill

    Fire upon the Deep - 1.5

    "After the Battle on Starship Hill" is more than 12000 words of prologue from Vernor Vinge's forthcoming novel, The Children of the Sky. Taking place on Tines World, this mini e-book describes events of the years immediately following the conclusion ...

  • The Children of the Sky

    Fire upon the Deep - 2

    After nearly twenty years, Vernor Vinge has produced an enthralling sequel to his memorable bestselling novel A Fire Upon the Deep. Ten years have passed on Tines World, where Ravna Bergnsdot and a number of human children ended up after a disaste...

Award-Winning Books by Vernor Vinge

A Deepness in the Sky
2000 Hugo Award -- Novel
2000 John W. Campbell Memorial Award -- Novel
A Fire upon the Deep
1993 Hugo Award -- Novel
Rainbows End
2007 Hugo Award -- Novel
2007 Locus Award -- Science Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Vernor Vinge has published 15 books.

Vernor Vinge does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Children of the Sky, was published in October 2011.

The first book by Vernor Vinge, The Witling, was published in January 1976.

Yes. Vernor Vinge has 1 series.
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