Across Realtime by Vernor Vinge
Encompassing time-travel, powerful mystery and the future history of humanity to its last handful of survivors, Across Realtime spans millions of years and is an utterly engrossing SF classic.
Across Realtime
Across Realtime
Summary
Two science fiction novels combined into one epic conveying the experience of travelling through millions of years of time.
Across Realtime Summary
About Vernor Vinge
Vernor Vinge (1944 - ) Vernor Steffen Vinge was born in Wisconsin in 1944. He is a retired San Diego State University Professor of Mathematics, a computer scientist and science fiction author. He is best known for his two epic space operas A Fire Upon the Deep (1992) and A Deepness in the Sky (1999), both of which won the Hugo Award and were shortlisted for the Nebula. He is the winner of 5 Hugos, 4 Prometheus Awards and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, among many others. In addition to his works of science fiction, Vinge authored the influential 1993 essay 'The Coming Technological Singularity', in which he argued 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.
Additional information
GOR001253250
9781857981476
1857981472
Across Realtime by Vernor Vinge
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Orion Publishing Co
20000309
544
N/A
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