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True Names

True Names is a 1981 science fiction novella by Vernor Vinge, considered 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, anarchism, and even hints about The Singularity.

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. It was awarded the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award in 2007.

Usage examples of "true names".

Their own secret and 'inner' names, their true names, the Dwarves have never revealed to any one of alien race.

Yet these are rightly the names of the places of their dwelling, and their true names are N?

They revealed their true names to few, but used such names as were given to them.