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Rainbows End

by Vernor Vinge

Hugo Award · 2007 · WinnerLocus Award · 2007 · Winner
Tor BooksScience Fiction & FantasyISBN 9780812873337

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About This Book

In a near-future world saturated with augmented reality, a poet with Alzheimer's is cured but must relearn how to live in a transformed world—and discovers a sinister conspiracy underway. Winner of the 2007 Hugo Award for Best Novel.

About the Author

Vernor Vinge (1944–2024) was an American science fiction author and mathematician who won the Hugo Award for Best Novel twice—for *A Fire Upon the Deep* (1993) and *A Deepness in the Sky* (2000)—plus a third time for *Rainbows End* (2007). He is also known for popularising the concept of the technological singularity.

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