Vernor Vinge's Best Science Fiction, 1984-2011; How to Avoid a Technological Singularity

This is the second part of my overview of Vernor Vinge, a modern all-time great science fiction author and one of the foremost thinkers about the future of artificial intelligence and the potential for a technological singularity to occur in the coming decades. His fiction and nonfiction writing has had a profound impact on many other highly regarded authors including: William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, Greg Bear, Tad Williams and Dan Simmons.

Many of Vinge's works are brilliant. Among them are some of my all-time favorites in the SF genre. And he's been recognized with numerous awards, including seven Hugo nominations and five wins, despite writing only eight novels and 24 short stories and novellas over a span of five decades.

My first video about Vinge, covering his ideas about superhuman intellligence and his early works from 1965-1981, can be found at    • Vernor Vinge's Early Science Fiction,...  .

In this second video, I discuss his works spanning the period 1984-2011, when his writing reached its zenith.

0:03 Vinge overview
0:58 The Peace War
5:39 The Ungoverned
7:03 Marooned in Realtime
11:45 Zones of Thought
14:32 A Fire Upon the Deep
19:18 A Deepness in the Sky
22:24 The Children of the Sky
24:16 The Blabber
25:16 Fast Times at Fairmont High
28:22 Rainbow's End
31:04 The Cookie Monster



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