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Vernor Vinge, who was quietly ahead of his time. Current news stories are celebrating him for creating the term "Singularity" in regards to artificial intelligence. I became aware of him through his fictional work "True Names," which pre-dated Neuromancer and contained similar themes.

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True Names was to my knowledge the first to posit a virtual reality "cyberspace" and thus is one of the earliest precursors of cyberpunk. Within the SF community, he's probably better known for A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky and other related works.

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