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True Names by Vernor Vinge, first p. Multiple Hugo Award winner Vernor Vinge takes readers on a fifty-million-year trip to a future where humanity's fate will be decided in a dangerous game of high-tech survival. In this taut thriller, a Hugo finalist for Best Novel, nobody knows why there ar.

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A Hugo and Nebula Award finalist for True Names, he is also the author of The Peace War, Grimm's World, and a number of short stories. Considered by many to be the father of Artificial Intelligence, he has written especially for this book an essay on the nature of intelligence, natural and artificial.

Originally published as a novella in 1981, this version of True Names contains illustrations by Bob Walters and an afterword by Marvin Minsky

Originally published as a novella in 1981, this version of True Names contains illustrations by Bob Walters and an afterword by Marvin Minsky. I read this back in 1984, and really enjoyed re-reading it on a plane flight across the country.

TRUE NAMES The story is a marvelous mixture of hard-science SF and sword-and-sorcery imagery. Vinge posits that in a direct neurocybernetic interface, the information would be analogized by the. The story is a marvelous mixture of hard-science SF and sword-and-sorcery imagery. Vinge posits that in a direct neurocybernetic interface, the information would be analogized by the brain into symbols it is comfortable with. The ‘place’ in which the Coven ‘meets,’ for example, is or seems to be a castle, guarded by a program which manifests itself as a fìrebreathing dragon, sitting in a magma moat, wearing an asbestos T-shirt.

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Читать книгу True Names. Бесплатно читать книги популярного автора Vinge Vernor Steffen онлайн. Без регистрации и без смс в онлайн библиотеке. A Hugo and Nebula Award finalist for True Names, he is also the author of The Peace War, Grimm's World, and a number of short stories. A mathematician and computer scientist, he has published articles in magazines such as Omni. His illustrations have graced the pages of SF magazines such as Analog and Isaac Asimov's SF Magazine. He has also done a great deal of scientific illustration for college texts, as well as general advertising illustration.

Also included is the Afterword by Marvin Minsky, and. GIFs of all illustrations from the book.

Author: Vernor Vinge. Publisher: Bluejay Books In. New-York, 1984. This collection, structured around a reprint of Vernor Vinge’s enormously influential novella True Names, includes several essays as well as other short fiction inspired by Vinge’s revolutionary tale. Also included is the Afterword by Marvin Minsky, and. One zip file contains the whole lot, for portability.

I have also included the updated afterword by Prof. ion of True Names as I can make. I agree with Project Gutenberg, regarding the superiority of hard formatted plain ASCII over other formats. Except that this work requires some italics, so I’ve used a bastard mix of plain text and HTML.

These books built Vinge's reputation as an author who would explore ideas to their logical conclusions in particularly inventive ways.

American mathematician, computer scientist, and science fiction writer. Vinge came to prominence in 1981 with his novella True Names, perhaps the first story to present a fully fleshed-out concept of cyberspace, which would later be central to cyberpunk stories by William Gibson, Neal Stephenson and others. These books built Vinge's reputation as an author who would explore ideas to their logical conclusions in particularly inventive ways

True Names by Vernor Vinge, first published in 1981, is such a work. Many Net veterans cite True Names as a seminal influence that shaped their ideas about Net policy

True Names by Vernor Vinge, first published in 1981, is such a work. Marvin Minsky: Cofounder of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab. Chip Morningstar and F. Randall Farmer: Codevelopers of habitat, the first real computer interactive environment. Many Net veterans cite True Names as a seminal influence that shaped their ideas about Net policy. It became a cult classic among hackers and presaged everything from Internet interactive games to Neuromancer.

This remarkable anthology reprints Hugo winner Vinge's (The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge) "True Names" .

This remarkable anthology reprints Hugo winner Vinge's (The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge) "True Names" (1981), the story that began SF's cyberpunk revolution, with 11 essays showing its effect on science as well as fiction. The best are the testimonials by pioneers in virtual reality, cryptography and artificial intelligence. The most famous contributors, Marvin Minsky and Danny Hillis, also show the deepest understanding of Vinge's vision. The weakest pieces are science-fictional, appearing pale in the shadow of Vinge's story.