Science fiction master Vernor Vinge dead at 79

I’m not really one to fan-boy, but I did once ask Vinge “Some people say that ‘True Names’ was the first long-form cyberpunk story, and ‘A Fire Upon the Deep’ created the whole genre of post-singularity space opera. So I have to ask … what are you working on NOW?”

He laughed and said he was doing some stuff with epic fantasy.

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