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Novels
Grimm's World (1969), revised as Tatja Grimm's World (1987)
The Witling (1976)
The Peace War (1984) — Hugo Award nominee, 1985[1]
Marooned in Realtime (1986) — Prometheus Award winner, Hugo Award
nominee, 1987[2]
(The Peace War and Marooned in Realtime were collected as Across
Realtime in 2000.)
Rainbows End ISBN 0-312-85684-9 (2006) — Hugo and Locus SF Awards
winner, 2007;[7] Campbell Award nominee, 2007[7]
[edit]Zones of Thought series
A Fire Upon the Deep (1992) — Nebula Award nominee, 1992;[11] Hugo
Award winner, 1993;[3] Campbell and Locus SF Awards nominee, 1993[3]
A Deepness in the Sky (1999) — Nebula Award nominee, 1999;[12]
Hugo,[4] Campbell,[4] and Prometheus Awards winner, 2000; Clarke and
Locus SF Awards nominee, 2000[4]
[edit]Collections
True Names ... and Other Dangers ISBN 0-671-65363-6
"Bookworm, Run!"
"True Names" (1981, winner 2007 Prometheus Hall of Fame Award)
"The Peddler's Apprentice" (with Joan D. Vinge)
"The Ungoverned" (occurs in the same milieu as The Peace War and
Marooned in Realtime)
"Long Shot"
Threats... and Other Promises ISBN 0-671-69790-0 (These two volumes
collect Vinge's short fiction through the early 1990s.)
"Apartness"
"Conquest by Default" (occurs in the same milieu as "Apartness")
"The Whirligig of Time"
"Gemstone"
"Just Peace" (with William Rupp)
"Original Sin"
"The Blabber" (occurs in the same milieu as A Fire Upon the Deep)
Across Realtime ISBN 0-671-72098-8
The Peace War
The Ungoverned
Marooned in Realtime
True Names and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier ISBN
0-312-86207-5 (contains "True Names" plus essays by others)
The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge ISBN 0-312-87373-5 (hardcover)
or ISBN 0-312-87584-3 (paperback) (This volume collects Vinge's short
fiction through 2001, including Vinge's comments from the earlier two
volumes.)
"Bookworm, Run!"
"The Accomplice"
"The Peddler's Apprentice" (with Joan D. Vinge)
"The Ungoverned"
"Long Shot"
"Apartness"
"Conquest by Default"
"The Whirligig of Time"
"Bomb Scare"
"The Science Fair"
"Gemstone"
"Just Peace" (with William Rupp)
"Original Sin"
"The Blabber"
"Win A Nobel Prize!" (originally published in Nature, Vol 407 No 6805 "Futures")
"The Barbarian Princess" (this is also the first section of "Tatja
Grimm's World")
"Fast Times at Fairmont High" (occurs in the same milieu as Rainbows
End) (winner 2002 Hugo Award for Best Novella)
[edit]Uncollected short fiction
"Grimm's Story" (Orbit (anthology series) 4, 1968)
"A Dry Martini" (The 60th World Science Fiction Convention ConJosé
Restaurant Guide, page 60)
"The Cookie Monster" (Analog Science Fiction, October 2003) (winner
2004 Hugo Award for Best Novella)
"Synthetic Serendipity", IEEE Spectrum Online, 30 June 2004[13]