Vinge's 2006 novel Rainbows End, set in the same universe and featuring 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.Interview with Vernor Vinge , Norwescon website, October 12, 2009.
Vinge's 2006 novel Rainbows End set in the same universe and featuring 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 DeepInterview with Vernor Vinge  Norwescon website October 12 2009