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Vinge, Vernor True Names: And the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier
New York Tor Books December, 2001 0-312-86207-5 / 9780312862077 Paperback Very Good
This remarkable anthology reprints Hugo winner Vinge's (The Collected Stori es of Vernor Vinge) "True Names" (1981), the story that began SF's cyberpun k revolution, with 11 essays showing its effect on science as well as ficti on. The best are the testimonials by pioneers in virtual reality, cryptogra phy and artificial intelligence. The most famous contributors, Marvin Minsk y and Danny Hillis, also show the deepest understanding of Vinge's vision. The weakest pieces are science-fictional, appearing pale in the shadow of V inge's story. Fellow SF author John M. Ford's essay is lightweight, while a stunted attempt at storytelling by Richard Stallman quickly reverts to pol emic. The overall problem with the collection is its wildly unbalanced poli tical stance. A quarter of the essayists are "crypto-anarchists," who see t he ability of individuals to act secretly as the only defense against a tot alitarian surveillance state. Their claim that the response to public trage dy is always a call to restrict civil rights seems sadly prescient, but the ir antisocial antidote sits poorly after September 11; the crypto-anarchist s' beloved secrecy lets both terrorists and tyrants flourish. More socially responsible uses of cryptography exist that could, like the camcorder, giv e the power of surveillance to the people. It's a shame that editor Frenkel didn't seek out alternate voices such as Bruce Sterling or David Gelernter , but the book is still a testament to SF's power to shape the future and g ive us advance warning of the rocky issues ahead.
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