For the 2008 story by Cory Doctorow and Benjamin Rosenbaum, see True Names (2008 story). For the fantasy trope, see True name.
True Names
Author
Vernor Vinge
Country
USA
Language
English
Series
Binary Star #5, ed. James R. Frenkel
Genre
Science fiction, cyberpunk
Published
1981 (Dell Publishing)
Media type
Novella
ISBN
978-0241975589
True Names is a 1981 science fiction novella by American writer Vernor Vinge, a seminal work of the cyberpunk genre. It is one of the earliest stories to present a fully fleshed-out concept of cyberspace, which would later be central to cyberpunk. The story also contains elements of transhumanism.
True Names first brought Vinge to prominence as a science fiction writer. It also inspired many real-life hackers and computer scientists; a 2001 book about the novella, True Names: And the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier, included essays by Danny Hillis, Marvin Minsky, Mark Pesce, Richard Stallman and others.[1] It was a finalist for the Hugo and Nebula awards in 1982, and was awarded the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award in 2007.
^True Names: And the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier review, Publishers Weekly, December 24, 2001
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