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Vernor Vinge
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: October 2
Computer Scientist
Mathematician
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Waukesha
Wisconsin
Vernor Steffen Vinge
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The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.
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Poor humans they will all die.Poor us we will not.
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