True Names ... and Other Dangers

True Names ... and Other Dangers
Vernor Vinge
Baen Books, 1987
ISBN 0-671-65363-6

Hacker demigod Richard Stallman used to say that the title story of
this book "expresses the spirit of hacking best".  Until the subject
of the next entry came out, it was hard to even nominate another
contender.  The other stories in this collection are also fine work by
an author who has since won multiple Hugos and is one of today's very
best practitioners of hard SF.