True Names is a severely underappreciated book, it was a blast to read many years ago and it still holds up solidly today, also - a nice stepping stone into Vinge's much more complex novels.

I have just found the best booktube channel. Wow.

Just wanted to say thank you for all the great work on the channel in showcasing authors and their work. My reading list has expanded remarkably as a result. Thank you especially for this introductory video to the early works of Vernon Vinge! I wasn't aware of him or his work before and now I'm definitely interested 🙂. Looking forward to the second part.

The descriptions of what Vinge explores in his stories already had me interested, but the comparison to Ted Chiang sold me. I’m so glad this channel is able to introduce me such amazing authors. Keep up these great videos!

It's rather sweet to find you talking about a subject I know well, for a change: I've been reading and rereading all of Vernor Vinge's fiction for decades, right back to the early stories; although I started with his two Bobble novels of the mid-1980s, which I think remain my favourites.

in my opinion, the two novels and novella of The Peace War trilogy are his best work. The Ungoverned is a great treatment exploring the application of concepts of anarcho-capitalism and its weaknesses. Marooned in Real Time is a great detective novel among the remnants of those who missed out on the technological singularity.

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Oh wow, ‘True Names’ sounds like a must read. I’ll be tracking that down. I recently found a copy of Grimms World and have several other books of his but other than starting A Fire Upon The Deep and never finishing it, I’ve never given him a fair shot. I’m looking forward to reading literally anything by him now. Looking forward to part 2 as well!

These videos deserve way, way more views. One of my favorite...if not my favorite...booktube channel. Truly great content. Some of the most interesting book related videos out there...by far.

Another great video introducing us to obscure syfy novels . Thank you sir

I am not a big science-fiction fan but both my mom and grandmom were, so I am surprised I do not recognise his name. Will definitely look up his books, they sound wonderful.

This channel is excellent. The amount of information and soothing tone are a perfect combination.

Fantastic book channel. I am learning so much. Quality information.

I'm glad I stumbled across this gem of a channel. So much variety in the subject matter, and quite a few authors and books I've never heard of.

Awesome video can't wait to buy his books

Ohhh new sci-fi recomendations are always welcome in this house. Thank you! A great discussion as always

The production level is through the roof. Keep it up!

Did not realize Mr. Vinge taught at my alma mater! It was way before my time but still cool to know. Glad to see your channel has grown so quickly I remember when I watched your first video the channel had under 1k subs. Can't wait for more awesome content. 👍

Fantastic to finally see this man's works get some attention. Hugely underappreciated. So many awesome ideas! I in fact refer to "Rainbows End" in my lectures on future materials.

I've only read his Zones of Thought / Fire Upon the Deep trilogy, but I really loved it, especially the way he presents the culture of the Tines. I look forward to hearing your thoughts on it. I may have to go back and check out some of these earlier works.

You’re one of the best booktubers And sci-fi suits you well as does fantasy Thank you for hard work and quality videos

Thank you so much for making these videos, you share knowledge about many different authors and I look forward to them. What I do like is that you give starting points of where to begin an author's work. I've never read any by Vinge but have enjoyed many of the films that were used to help get your points across, that has made me curious 😊. You mentioned Andre Norton and I read many of her novels from my secondary school library.

I so love learning about the bigger world of Sci-Fi. So much info!

Very interesting. Thank you.

Great video ! Love your chanel. Keep it up.

Thank you so much, once again my knowledge of great authors gets fatter thanx to the Library Ladder! Very much looking forward to part 2 :)

I love this channel

Thank you for this video - am looking forward to part 2. I'm a huge fan of Vinge's later novels but will now have to go back and read some of his earlier works. Vinge used to give lectures and post online, but he seems to have been inactive for a few years now so far as I can tell. Any idea what he is doing now? I hope he is doing well.

Another fantastic, informative video! My familiarity with Vinge is, sadly, limited to his famous duology.

I recognized a cover but did not remember the title, Tatja Grimm's World. I vaguely remember the story but I recall it being fun. I could not have told you the author if you told me the title. I guess my memory is more visual. Thanx!

Thanks for this video ;-)

Really happy I found this channel. Thomas Covenant videos were great. Do you think you'll ever go through the Dark Tower series?

Vinge is undoubtedly a successful writer and analytical thinker, this is not a criticism, just FYI. However, regarding the concepts of AI Robots, Solipsism, etc. many others came before. Read The Humanoids by Jack Vance 1949, Colossus by Dennis Feltham Jones 1966 [a movie a few years later], Asimov clearly predicts the "Dispossessed' created by intelligent robots in The Naked Sun -1956 as I recall. Many, many more. I watched as the "Robots" displaced millions of jobs thru the 1970s, 80s, 90s thru today. Should have been regulated, as Asimov kind of suggested and was obvious to anyone by 1980. The idea of solipsism is very briefly discussed by Heinlein in Red Planet, but many, many authors have discussed a "virtual reality" in one way or another, for decades. Fredric Brown, Damon Knight, Keith Laumer many times, C.S. Lewis in The Shoddy Lands [not tech driven, but ego].. And this film from 1973: World On A Wire - "Cybernetics engineer Fred Stiller uncovers a massive corporate conspiracy involving a virtual reality computer project." Yeah. He is code, not a person! All authors learn from what has come before. 🙂

You sparked my mind to try read fire upon the deep again, i stoped it becouse i didnt like/understand his concepts and in general story about 3 headed dogs that mearge their minds in group.

Good Morning, awesome video! I'm new to your channel so forgive me if it already exists, but could you make a video about books that have libraries and/or librarians as common setting of the story or as a destination like a lost/ hidden/ forgotten library. You could mayb name it "Libraries/Vaults of Treasure in books" I'm working on a fantasy story and would love to see examples of how this setting has been written in past books. Also books with wizard's libraries, observatories, homes, towers etc. In a video maybe named "Where Wizards used to live/studied/worked" would be amazing. Ps. I won't repost this again, thanks

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I think you're using a machine to recreate the sound of narrators back then in certain aspects of content but is it an app or it's an actual piece of equipment that's allowing you to do it I'm interested in literally what you're using to do so it's just curiosity of mine I can name off a bunch of them but that'd be fruitless when I could literally just ask you you could say it. And I kind of find it somewhat similar to it but in real aspect there's a certain maybe tone or maybe execution in the in your execution of how you're saying it that is a little off it's a little query it's a little I know it kind of makes you want to listen a little bit more but because of something that would be a little bit dangerous or somewhat snickle nature even though obviously you're not doing that instead of mystical belief or non-belief in reality to non reality the darkest depths of the human unconscious psyche to the highest comfort worth and of the Sun that makes you feel cuddly inside from sci-fi to Alfred Hitchcock to Edgar Allan Poe with just a little twist like a drop off line in your tea of a Twilight zone yeah I've been called weird by everybody whether they know me or not my little children by old adults by my family I accept it but they say I'm as funny as hell not literally made people piss their pants by laughing they all say it should be a comedian but my jokes are faced in mostly truth of reality and yeah something like that but let's face it I'm a heterosexual white male when you're treated differently than that aspect. I'm not going to say we get treated racially against in that aspect because the truth of the matter is to be racist or to have someone be racist to you you actually have to be or they have to be a different race which no one on the planet is a different race than sapien and there's only been one sleeping race ever in existence so I guess that bull's their theory out of the water huh.

Well that site and comprehension and the analogy of the goldfish is accurate but where it's wrong in the hypothesis of their theory is that it wouldn't be the goldfish it wouldn't be them it'd be us with our creation that we programmed programmed in likeness of comprehension ability and our knowledge to imitate consciousness it's not a Pandora's box that's just the problem of comprehension in the comprehension of the example isn't in the right comprehensionable category it literally changes the factor of what is being asked in nature because it's the computer would be whatever we programmed it to be it's not an actual living entity with its own actual thought like that goldfish that we try to understand we would literally understand it because we programmed it to be that way as a computer and they would understand us because we program them to be a learning computer and study us and whatever we programmed it to study thus it could study other things and get a good concept like we can but when they study us they would know us because we know us and we put us into them which quite frankly people would be extremely stupid and extremely unwise and every aspect of the meaning look at us look at our genius homo species that we call sapien people running around thinking they're different racing each other hating each other for it and doctorating people and our children into the living garbage robbing stealing raping murdering we are the worst anything that I've ever heard of of any living something that's been in existence we if anything take as a biblical access are the complete opposite of good we in aspect would shout out into the deepest dark of the abyss and here hundreds upon millions upon unlimited known voices saying we are legion and we are many all at the same time and what we would be hearing is ourselves we are the only thing that destroys everything no matter how good we tried to be tell me I'm wrong tell me when the worst things that God or by natural selection by literally random community events that we are so lucky to give us life that has ever been created ever that we know of not even the most scariest animal out there are as evil and uncompassionate and leaving nothing but death and destruction in our wake as us animals the mammals that are in likeness category and a primates of great apes because we have to share similar features as the rest of the apes that doesn't mean we evolved from them that just means we're in the category of likeness that's something people don't understand mammal category is in likeness not evolving from. No one ever claimed we evolved from it except maybe maybe Darwin but I don't think she did either I think he just said that like them we evolved from some type of protein that formed us into the mammals that we are as humans similar in like this in capabilities and literally an emotions has the baboon the chimpanzee the gorilla and the orangutan and I know that ain't spelled right but I'm completely illiterate because there's no eye in that that's how I know it's not spelled right and human in the Great super primate family in likeness listing under mammals not involving from yes I keep repeating myself because people just don't understand that they're literally says that if you look up what cat but it's a categorized as that is ignorance and literally shows how comprehensionable in our capabilities of our self-awareness we really are lacking we are I mean we base how intelligent we are on what we created to base intelligence off of I wouldn't trust too much in that we saw the creatures I think they're intelligent doing that what would be the first thing you think and rebuttal back well you created that system there that you base your intelligence off of so how accurate is it right let's apply that to ourselves cuz that's reality

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Because of the aspect of my mind racing I went back to watching the video and he showed a picture of Leonard nimoy Mr Spock and what popped into my head was man wouldn't have been awesome for Leonard nimoy and oh man now I'm not going to remember his name the guy that played Captain Kirk I f*** with names by the way people being able to go up into space together wouldn't that have been something Tiberius got to go lucky bastard him I'm jealous I'd love to have the opportunity to do that but nowhere even come close to have the type of money to do so only on I guess you lung must good graciousness of heart allowing me to go but I ever be able to I dream about me and my daughter being able to go up into space and looking down on the Earth and I just it'd be the most unimaginable experience you could actually experience and become reality in your subjective reality and to share the only person that means the most to me in the world my daughter and oh man I just had his name and it skipped out the guy that played Captain Kirk be there at the same time and that would be a trip I don't know I'd probably die of excitement I'll be jumping up and down like a little kid that literally 40 years 45 years old not just going off in a daydream of it I better just leave it there

And under the goldfish thing we would have one aspect but they that the artificial intelligence wouldn't know about but they wouldn't be able to predict and that's the unpredictableness of some of us because we're predictable in a lot of ways and almost always but when it comes down to certain aspect of things there's some things we just can't predict or expect that other people would do those would be the black holes of our nature the unaccountable buying intelligent nature of unpredictability that the computers would know about but wouldn't be able to perform themselves but only mimic what they've already seen us do thus never ever being able to be spontaneously so unpredictable that holy cow I can't believe that person just did that I've known them all my life and never would have ever thought that they would I've done that but it be good or bad you know just literally pool 100% surprise mind blowing they wouldn't be capable of it that would be the only thing that might save our asses from them but that might as well just bend over and kiss each other's basketball goodbye basketball basketball yes I'm completely illiterate in an atrocious way

Peace War!

Good channel, but I have a feeling you are not talking normally.

Trying way too hard to use your FM voice. Sounds very forced and artificial. Can’t imagine you saying..pass the salt or what time is it, in that voice. Just some constructive criticism.

Why are you whispering? Shush