some of the same characters as Fast Times at Fairmont High, won the 2007 Hugo Award for Best Novel. In 2011, he released The Children of the Sky, a sequel to A Fire Upon the Deep set approximately 10 years following the end of A Fire Upon the Deep. Vinge retired in 2000 from teaching at San Diego State University, in order to write full-time. Most years, since its inception in 1999, Vinge has been on the Free Software Foundation's selection committee for their Award for the Advancement of Free Software. Vernor Vinge was Writer Guest of Honor at ConJosé, the 60th World Science Fiction Convention in 2002. Personal life His former wife, Joan D. Vinge, is also a science fiction author. They were married from 1972 to 1979. Bibliography Novels Realtime/Bobble series The Peace War (1984) — Hugo Award nominee, 1985 Marooned in Realtime (1986) — Prometheus Award winner, Hugo Award nominee, 1987 Zones of Thought series A Fire Upon the Deep (1992) — Hugo Award winner, 1993; Nebula Award nominee, 1992; Campbell and Locus SF Awards nominee, 1993 A Deepness in the Sky (1999) — Hugo, Campbell, and Prometheus Awards winner, 2000; Nebula Award nominee, 1999; Clarke and Locus SF Awards nominee, 2000 The Children of the Sky (2011) Standalone novels Grimm's World (1969), expanded as Tatja Grimm's World (1987) The Witling (1976) Rainbows End (2006) — Hugo and Locus SF Awards winner, 2007; Campbell Award nominee, 2007 Collections Across Realtime (1986) The Peace War "The Ungoverned" Marooned in Realtime True Names ... and Other Dangers (1987) "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 (1988) (These two volumes collect Vinge's short fiction through the late 1980s.) "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) True Names and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier (2001) (contains "True Names" plus essays by others) The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge (2001) (hardcover) or (paperback) (This volume collects Vinge's short fiction through 2001 (except "True Names"), including Vinge's comments from the earlier two volumes.) "Bookworm, Run!" "The Accomplice" "The Peddler's Apprentice"