Vernor Vinge

True Names (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Penguin reissues a seminal work of cyberpunk fiction from the Hugo Award-winning author of A
Fire Upon the Deep - with a new introduction by Hari Kunzru

Mr Slippery is an illegal computer hacker - a Warlock - and an expert in a new virtual reality technology called the Other Plane. Arrested by US the government and forced to work for them, he finds himself pitted against a new and frightening international cybercriminal: the Mailman.

The Mailman is building a network of Warlocks, promising them wealth and power, causing chaos around the globe - but noone has ever met him in person. As Mr Slippery and his sidekick Erythrina drain the world's computational power to track down their formidable adversary, they begin to wonder if they are chasing a ghost. Is the Mailman a man at all? Is he even human?

True Names is part of the Penguin Worlds classic science fiction series

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780241975596
• Artikelnr.: 45324784

Autorenporträt

Vernor Vinge

Inhaltsangabe

Preface by James Frenkel
Introduction by Vernor Vinge
"A Time of Transition/The Human Connection," by Danny Hills
"True Nyms and Crypto Anarchy," by Timothy C. May
"Eventful History: Version 1.x," by John M. Ford
"How Is the NII Like a Prison?," by Alan Wexelblat
"Intelligent Software," by Pattie Maes
"The Right to Read," by Richard M. Stallman
"Cryptography and the Politics of One's True Name," by Leonard N. Foner
"Habitat: Reports from an Online Community," by Chip Morningstar and F.
Randall Farmer
"True Magic," by Mark Pesce
'True Names," by Vernor Vinge
Afterword by Marvin Minsky