True Names

'''Vinge, Vernor. True Names.''' Novella 1981. Kokomo, IN: Bluejay, 1984.

Especially as the 1981 novella, True Names 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." Characters in TN "link with the world-wide computer net via direct nerve connection, and thus they can manipulate the system as if they were themselves the central program . . .," using "icons drawn from fantasy games." Note for human/computer symbiosis and a variation on the computer take-over motif (Orth 10, source here and quote [see under Reference]). Rev. Dave Mead, Fantasy Review #78 (April 1985): 28. Cf. and contrast the "cyberpunk stories by William Gibson, Neal Stephenson and others" covered by this wiki.