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A lot of Vinge's fiction has mechanisms to prevent his futures from being past the singularity. Across Realtime features those left behind, A Fire Upon the Deep
by bediger4000 4y ago
A lot of Vinge's fiction has mechanisms to prevent his futures from being past the singularity. Across Realtime features those left behind, A Fire Upon the Deep and a Deepness in the Sky have the Slow Zone and the Transcend. His short stories have various one off, not well explained things, wars, etc.
Vinge's whole fiction career has been about dealing with the Singularity.
- philipswood 4y agoI'd say these are all plot devices to look at singularity using "peripheral vision". I mean you can't "look straight at it". How do you write about things that are way beyond your ability to perceive or understand (by his definition of the singularity). I recall him discussing -somewhere- using the the repressive regime in the Peace War as a device to slow down history enough to pin a plot on it. In Tatja Grimm's world he also makes a really good attempt at writing about a human being who has a superhuman level of intelligence (relative to our current standards).