True Names

TRUE NAMES VERNOR VINGE

Bluejay Books Inc.

All the characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

A Bluejay Book, published by arrangement with the Author.

Copyright by Vernor Vinge

Cover and interior art © 1984 by Robert Walters

Afterword © 1984 by Marvin Minsky

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First Bluejay printing: November 1984