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Bibliography for Vernor Vinge

I have not tried to report on all editions. Instead, I show the the first appearance of each story and (in most cases) the edition that is likely to be the most accessible as of May 1993.

Stories

  1. "Apartness" [7400 words] in New Worlds SF June 1965 Also in Threats and Other Promises, Baen Books, November 1988

  2. "Bookworm, Run!" [14000 words] in Analog, March 1966 Also in True Names and Other Dangers, Baen Books 1987

  3. "The Accomplice" [3300 words] in If, April 1967

  4. "Conquest by Default" [13000] in Analog May 1968 Also in Threats and Other Promises, Baen Books, November 1988

  5. "Grimm's Story" [20000 words] in Orbit 4, Damon Knight, ed, 1968 (Berkley Books) This is approximately the first half of my 1969 novel, Grimm's World.

  6. "Bomb Scare" [4100 words] in Analog, November 1970

  7. "The Science Fair" [3200 words] in Orbit 9, Damon Knight, ed 1971

  8. "Just Peace" [15000 words] in Analog, December 1971 Co-authored with William Rupp Also in Threats and Other Promises, Baen Books, November 1988

  9. "Long Shot" [5500 words] in Analog, August 1972 Also in True Names and Other Dangers, Baen Books 1987

  10. "Original Sin" [12300 words] in Analog, December 1972 Also in Threats and Other Promises, Baen Books, November 1988

  11. "The Whirligig of Time" [7040 words] in Stellar 1, 1974 Also in Threats and Other Promises, Baen Books, November 1988

  12. "The Peddler's Apprentice" [15600 words] in Analog, August 1975 Co-authored with Joan D. Vinge Also in True Names and Other Dangers, Baen Books 1987

  13. "True Names" [30108 words] in Dell Binary Star Number 5, Feb. 1981 Also in True Names and Other Dangers, Baen Books, November 1987

  14. "Gemstone" [10781 words] Analog, October 1983 Also in Threats and Other Promises, Baen Books, November 1988

  15. "The Ungoverned", [16512 words] Far Frontiers, Fall 1985 Also in Across Realtime, Baen Books, 1991

  16. "The Barbarian Princess", [17137 words] Analog, September 1986 This is the first part of the 1987 revision of Grimm's World from Baen Books

  17. "The Blabber", [25282 words] in Threats and Other Promises, Baen Books, November 1988

Novel length items

  1. The Witling [54350 words] DAW Books 1976 Also from Baen Books, 1987

  2. Grimm's World [54300 words] Berkley Books 1969 A revised version, Tatja Grimm's World [69444 words] was released by Baen Books in 1987. Besides being revised, this version contained "The Barbarian Princess".

  3. Peace War [96500 words] Serialized in Analog, May..August 1984 Paperback from Baen Books, June 1985

  4. Marooned in Real Time Serialized in Analog, May..August 1986 Papberback from Baen Books, 1986

  5. Across Real Time Paperback combo edition from Baen Books, 1991, comprising Peace War, "The Ungoverned", and Marooned in Real Time

  6. True Names and Other Dangers Baen Books, 1987 Collection, consisting of: "Bookworm, Run" "True Names" "The Peddlar's Apprentice" "The Ungoverned" "Long Shot" and original commentary

  7. Threats and Other Promises Baen Books, 1988 Collection consisting of: "Apartness" "Conquest by Default" "The Whirligig of Time" "Gemstone" "Just Peace" "Original Sin" "The Blabber" and original commentary

  8. A Fire Upon the Deep Tor Books, 1992

Non-Fiction

  1. "Solutions to Extremal Problems in E**p Spaces", Nagoya Math J, Vol 56(1974), pp19-27

  2. "Titan as a Gravitational Brake", co-authored with Arthur Sorkin, J British Interplanetary Soc, Vol 27(1974), pp129-131

  3. "Approximation by Faber Polynomials for a Class of Jordan Domains", co-authored with Frank D. Lesley and Stefan E. Warschawski, Math Z, Vol 138(1974), pp225-237

  4. "The Problem of Software Piracy Revisited: A Proposal", in the Language Forum section of Byte, May 1979, p207

  5. "First Word" OpEd column [711 words] in Omni January 1983

  6. "Teaching FORTH on a VAX", Forth Dimensions, Vol IV nr 6, March/April 1983, p8

  7. "The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era", Proceedings of the VISION-21 Symposium, 1993.

Translation

  1. Of Eduardo Goligorsky's story "Cuando los Pa'jaros Mueran", in F&&SF, November 1967

Biographical Material:

Vernor Vinge was born in Waukesha, Wisconsin, in 1944. He grew up in Okemos, Michigan, and graduated from Michigan State University.

In 1971 he received a PhD (Math) from the University of California, San Diego. His thesis research was in the areas of geometric function theory and functional analysis. He is now an associate professor in the Department of Math Sciences at San Diego State University. In the middle seventies he moved into the area of Computer Science. His current interest is in distributed operating systems and computer architecture.