Vernor Vinge is awesome and I love the character Pham Nuwen. His books are some of the smartest books I have read. I remember hearing an interview with Vinge

Vernor Vinge is awesome and I love the character Pham Nuwen. His books are some of the smartest books I have read. I remember hearing an interview with Vinge and he talks about how he loved writing because you could actually write in a way so that readers who are smarter than himself could get more out of it. I thought that was interesting. He was a computer science professor at San Diego State University. I read Dune after reading Vernor Vinge and I realized how influenced Vinge was by Dune. Dune is also a very smart book. Vinge is also the first to coin the term "The Singularity" in regards to technical innovation growing so quickly, and on top of itself, that we can't predict what is beyond.