Annalee Newitz 🍜 on Nostr: I am so sad to hear that we have lost Vernor Vinge, whose work was a tremendous ...
I am so sad to hear that we have lost Vernor Vinge, whose work was a tremendous inspiration to me. I once had the pleasure of interviewing him, and he was quite surprised when I told him that his characters in Rainbows End were a highlight. He thought of himself as a worldbuilder, but unbeknownst to himself, he was sometimes an author of truly nuanced character studies.
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