https://www.thewrap.com/vernor-vinge-author-singularity-cyberspace-dies-79/
Rip to one of the greatest sci-fi writers of all time. I remember reading a comment a few years ago that Vinge had retired from writing due to a medical issue. Guess that was his Parkinson's diagnosis
If anyone has only read his zone of thought series, I also highly recommend "Marooned in Real Time" and "The Babbler"
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RIP. I liked the book with the medieval wolves that had their thoughts divided between 4-5 brains.
E: a fire upon the deep
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I love that book so much. Sci-fi writers were so creative when they were writing books themed around the early Internet and how it could work in different scales
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This is why I like Hideo Kojima, he still does the batshit crazy stuff that writers are usually afraid to do these days.
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That sounds like a trip.
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Part of a trilogy.
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I like the part in Fire Upon the Deep where the only humans lucky enough to make it into the cool FTL/AI parts of the galaxy come from some kind of post-Scandinavian matriarchy
But my favorite part is how the gas giant creature schizoposting through several layers of Google Translate is right about everything
Also the part from Deepness in the Sky about the collapse of complex systems has been on my mind
And in that one I love how they still count time from the Unix epoch but most of them think they count from the first moon landing
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Had no idea he was still alive.
Fun fact; you pronounce the last 'e' in Vinge.
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Vageene?
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Bob Vageene.
Good ol' Bob.
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The Basilisk finally got him
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Man you are a pretty pathetic piece of shit aren't you. I got no problem jerking off to any porn that is legal and consenting. In fact thanks for reminding me. I'll go jerk off to some gay porn right now. You got a problem with that? You're just a fricking coward who's afraid of what you don't understand. You get on multiple reddit accounts to make it seem that even one person is on your side. How about you stop being a piece of shit and try being a nice person?
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