Translated from 1984 . 1984 1984 1984 Original illustrations saved by . [ "True Names" can not be called the debut work of Vernor Vinge - by that time he had already published several stories, novels "The World of Tati Grimm" and "The Wittling" - but, of course, this story brought the author fame. As in subsequent works, Vinge builds the text on many brilliant ideas. In True Names, he portrays cyberspace (a year before Gibson's The Burning of Chromium). Talks about the deep connection between programming and magic (four years before Zelazny's "Tricks of Destiny") makes the first sketches of the idea of the Technological Singularity (five years before his “Lost in Real Time”) and not only To better understand the context , Think about ,. "True Names" appeared in the 1981 compilation "Dell Binary Star" #5, when IBM released its first personal computer, the IBM PC, The running model of Apple was the Apple III even without the famous window interface (the first computer with a graphical interface). Xerox Star , It was released in 1981,. Five megabytes was considered an excellent hard disk size. And the Internet has not yet replaced the zoo of heterogeneous networks. True Names was shortlisted for the 1981 Hugo and Nebula Awards, but did not win the prize (Paul Anderson's Game of Saturn won Nebula that year, and Gordon Dixon's Lost Dorsey won Hugo). In 2007, True Names was awarded the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award.