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Authors: Vernor Vinge

BOOK: The Tatja Grimm's World

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V
ernor Vinge is a four-time Hugo Award winner (for the novels
A Deepness in the
Sky
and
A Fire Upon the Deep
, and the novellas
Fast Times at Fairmont High
and
The Cookie Monster
) and four-time Nebula finalist. He’s one of the bestselling authors in the field, and has been featured in such venues as
Rolling Stone, Wired, The New York Times, Esquire
, and on NPR’s
Fresh Air
.

Highly regarded by scientists, journalists, business leaders—as well as readers—for his concept of the technological singularity, Vinge has spoken all over the world on scientific subjects. For many years a mathematician and computer science professor at San Diego State University, he’s now a full-time writer. He lives in San Diego, California.

This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this novel are either fictitious or are used fictitiously.

TATJA GRIMM’S WORLD

Originally published in July 1987 by Baen Books.

Part I appeared in a slightly different form as
The Barbarian Princess,
copyright © 1986 by Vernor Vinge. in
Analog
, September 1986.

Part II appeared in a different form as
Grimm’s Story,
copyright © 1968 by Vernor Vinge, in Damon Knight’s anthology
Orbit 4,
published by Putnam and Berkley, 1968.

Parts II and III appeared in a different form as
Grimm’s World,
copyright © 1969 by Vernor Vinge, published by Berkley Books, 1969.

Edited by James Frenkel

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eISBN 9781429915137

First eBook Edition : June 2011

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Vinge, Vernor.

Tatja Grimm’s world / Vernor Vinge.

p. cm.

“A Tom Doherty Associates Book.”