Awards & Winners

Vernor Vinge

Date of Birth 02-October-1944
Place of Birth Waukesha
(Waukesha County, Wisconsin)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Vernor Steffen Vinge
Profession Writer, Computer Scientist, Novelist, Mathematician
Vernor Steffen Vinge is a retired San Diego State University Professor of Mathematics, computer scientist, and science fiction author. He is best known for his Hugo Award-winning novels and novellas A Fire Upon the Deep, A Deepness in the Sky, Rainbows End, Fast Times at Fairmont High, and The Cookie Monster, as well as for his 1984 novel The Peace War and his 1993 essay "The Coming Technological Singularity", in which he argues that the creation of superhuman artificial intelligence will mark the point at which "the human era will be ended", such that no current models of reality are sufficient to predict beyond it. Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.

Awards by Vernor Vinge

Check all the awards nominated and won by Vernor Vinge.

2007


Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
Honored for : Rainbows End
Hugo Award for Best Novel
Honored for : Rainbows End
Prometheus Hall of Fame Award
Honored for : True Names

Nominations 2007 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Hugo Award for Best Novel Rainbows End
Prometheus Award for Best Novel Rainbows End
Prometheus Hall of Fame Award True Names
Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel Rainbows End

2005


Nominations 2005 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Short Story Synthetic Serendipity

2004


Prometheus Hall of Fame Award
Honored for : The Ungoverned
Hugo Award for Best Novella
Honored for : The Cookie Monster

Nominations 2004 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Hugo Award for Best Novella The Cookie Monster
Prometheus Hall of Fame Award The Ungoverned
Nebula Award for Best Novella The Cookie Monster

2002


Hugo Award for Best Novella
Honored for : Fast Times at Fairmont High

Nominations 2002 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Hugo Award for Best Novella Fast Times at Fairmont High
Locus Award for Best Collection The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge

2000


Prometheus Award for Best Novel
Honored for : A Deepness in the Sky
Hugo Award for Best Novel
Honored for : A Deepness in the Sky
John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
Honored for : A Deepness in the Sky

Nominations 2000 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Prometheus Award for Best Novel A Deepness in the Sky
Arthur C. Clarke Award A Deepness in the Sky
Hugo Award for Best Novel A Deepness in the Sky
Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel A Deepness in the Sky

1999


Nominations 1999 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Nebula Award for Best Novel A Deepness in the Sky

1993


Science Fiction Chronicle Reader Award for Best Novel
Honored for : A Fire Upon the Deep
Hugo Award for Best Novel
Honored for : A Fire Upon the Deep

Nominations 1993 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Hugo Award for Best Novel A Fire Upon the Deep
Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel A Fire Upon the Deep

1992


Nominations 1992 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Nebula Award for Best Novel A Fire Upon the Deep

1989


Nominations 1989 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Collection Threats...And Other Promises

1988


Nominations 1988 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Locus Award for Best Collection True Names

1987


Prometheus Award for Best Novel
Honored for : Marooned in Realtime

Nominations 1987 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Prometheus Award for Best Novel Marooned in Realtime
Hugo Award for Best Novel Marooned in Realtime
Hugo Award for Best Novelette The Barbarian Princess
Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel Marooned in Realtime

1985


Nominations 1985 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Prometheus Award for Best Novel The Peace War
Hugo Award for Best Novel The Peace War
Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel The Peace War

1982


Nominations 1982 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Hugo Award for Best Novella True Names

1981


Nominations 1981 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Nebula Award for Best Novella True Names