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The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader]
eBook by Vernor Vinge
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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description:  Vernor Vinge has been writing terrific hard SF since the early 1960s. Even before his first novel was published, he was writing short stories that brought him to the attention of the SF reading public. Here is the real deal. These stories have all the hallmarks of his longer work--great ideas, compelling characters, and fastpaced action.
eBook Publisher: St. Martin's Press/St. Martin's Press, Published: 2001
Fictionwise Release Date: August 2002
Available eBook Formats [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader - What's this?]: SECURE MICROSOFT READER FORMAT (516 KB] - Requires Microsoft Reader 2.1.1 for PCs, or Microsoft Reader 2.2.2 on Pocket PC 2002 handheld devices. Some older Pocket PCs can be upgraded. Learn More., SECURE EREADER (RECOMMENDED) FORMAT (651 KB]
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Microsoft Reader ISBN, eReader (recommended) ISBN: 0312702868
 
Foreword The year 1965 is special for me: that's when I made my first science-fiction sale. In the next few years I sold a number of stories. My ideal length was around twelve thousand words. Shorter than that wasn't enough space to make the point of the story, and with longer stories, I had trouble coordinating characters and detail. Eventually, I became comfortable with novel-length stories. Most of my short fiction has been anthologized, stories scattered through many books: orphans moving from home to home. Publishers are reluctant to do one-author collections -- with happy exceptions, such as the Baen collections in the 1980s and now this Tor collection in 2001. The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge contains almost all my published short fiction to date. For the record, the omissions are "True Names," which is included in True Names and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier; and "Grimm's Story," which is the core of my novel, Tatja Grimm's World. Finally, this Tor collection contains a first appearance, the novella Fast Times at Fairmont High (hot off the word processor). --VERNOR VINGE
August 2001 Copyright © 2001 by Vernor Vinge
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