>[!citation] >Vinge, V. (1981). _True names and the opening of the Cyberspace Frontier_ (J. Frenkel, Ed.). Tor Books. > [!abstract] > 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 (Wikipedia, 2025). > [!quote] > "One book, picked up on a whim in a public library. Sixty-five words. Five seconds. My feeling at that moment is hard to describe; not wild enthusiasm, just a vast calm feeling of 'Yep. He's right. Well, now I know how I'll be spending the rest of my life.' I've been a Singularitarian ever since." ([[Yudkowsky, 2008]]).