" Other important predecessors include Alfred Bester's two most celebrated novels, The Demolished Man and The Stars My Destination, as well as Vernor Vinge's novella True Names.

The term " cyberspace " was first used by the cyberpunk science fiction author William Gibson, though the concept was described somewhat earlier, for example in the Vernor Vinge short story " True Names ," and even earlier in John M. Ford's novel, Web of Angels.

* 2007 – Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here and Vernor Vinge, True Names

Vernor Vinge's True Names, published in 1981, imagines a virtual world which is probably the first to represent a metaverse.

* Susan Goyette, The True Names of Birds

Forming a cabal, they must keep their true identities – their True Names – secret even to each other and to avoid prosecution by their " Great Adversary " – the government of the United States.

Furthermore, the knowledge of an elf's soulname gives the person who knows said soulname power over that elf, in a notably similar manner as True Names in Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea series.

Its sequels are " The Ungoverned ", which was a novella published in his collection True Names and Other Dangers, and the novel Marooned in Realtime.

Concepts similar to the Metaverse have appeared under a variety of names in the cyberpunk genre of fiction as far back as 1981 in the novella True Names.

It was first published in Far Frontiers, Volume III, first collected in True Names and Other Dangers, and later published in the 1991 edition of the omnibus Across Realtime.

True reality, of course, is the ideal, and the poet knows nothing of this ; ;

True, the adherents of staying put are now reduced to a minor, even a miniscule sect, and their credo, `` Home-keeping hearts are happiest '', is as disreputable as Socinianism.

True, a Mason watercolor is unmistakably a synthesis of nature rather than a detailed inventory.

True, it is no longer cricket for the butler to be the killer in mystery fiction, but we are dealing here with actual people in real life and not imaginary characters and situations.

True lowland is confined to a few narrow coastal strips along the Aegean, Mediterranean, and Black Sea coasts.

True to his empirical thesis, Hume tells the reader that, though testimony does have some force, it is never quite as powerful as the direct evidence of the senses.

:: True wit is nature to advantage dress'd ;

Judaism and Christianity share the belief that there is One, True God, who is the only one worthy to be worshipped.

So does the Coptic Church, which, being part of Oriental Orthodoxy, is not in communion with the Eastern Orthodox Church and considers itself " the True Church of the Lord Jesus Christ ".

During the excavation, Helena is alleged to have rediscovered the True Cross, and a tomb, though Eusebius's account makes no mention of Helena's presence at the excavation, nor of the finding of the cross but only the tomb.

By the crusader period, a cistern under the former basilica was rumoured to have been the location that Helena had found the True Cross, and began to be venerated as such ; although the cistern later became the Chapel of the Invention of the Cross, there is no evidence for the rumour prior to the 11th century, and modern archaeological investigation has now dated the cistern to the 11th century repairs by Monomachos.

They published a magazine for a short time and held an exhibit in Rome, featuring paintings, Tristan Tzara quotes, and original epigrams such as " True Dada is against Dada ".

True sable is a dachshund with each single hair banded with three colors: light at the base of the hair, red in the middle, black at the end.

The title Daodejing is an honorific given by posterity, other titles include the amalgam Lǎozǐ Dàodéjīng ( 老子道德經 ), the honorific Daode Zhen Jing ( 道德真經 " True Classic of the Way and the Power "), and the Wuqian wen ( " Five thousand character ").

" True Believers: The Intentional Strategy and Why it Works " is

" James's reading of The True Law of Free Monarchies allowed that "... a good king will frame all his actions to be according to the law, yet is he not bound thereto but of his good will ..." James also had printed his Defense of the Right of Kings in the face of English theories of inalienable popular and clerical rights.

Glenn A. Baker, author of Monkeemania: The True Story of the Monkees, commented in 1986 that " for an artist as versatile and confident as Jones, the relative failure of his post-Monkees activities is puzzling.

Gomen kitfo is another dish prepared in the occasion of Meskel, a very popular holiday marking the discovery of the True Cross.

The most famous of these assertions is by the History Channel in their " True Horror " series ( produced by Hardy Pictures in 2009 ) which states Aldini specifically as one of the sources for Mary Shelley's novel.

True gluten, with gliadin and glutenin, is limited to certain members of the grass family.

The horseshoe is presented as a talisman in The True Legend of St. Dunstan and the Devil ; Showing how the Horse-Shoe came to be a Charm against Witchcraft, written in 1871 by Edward G. Flight, with illustrations by George Cruikshank and engravings by John Thompson.

True implantation-invasion into the endometrium of any sort-does not occur until about day 35 of pregnancy with the formation of the endometrial cups, and true placentation ( formation of the placenta ) is not initiated until about day 40-45 and not completed until about 140 days of pregnancy.

Booleans ( called truthvalues in MUMPS ): In IF commands and other syntax that has expressions evaluated as conditions, any string value is evaluated as a numeric value, and if that is a nonzero value, then it is interpreted as True.

After starting his writing career by writing for " true confession " style pulp magazines like True Story, van Vogt decided to switch to writing something he enjoyed, science fiction.

As a means of understanding the world through speculation and storytelling, science fiction has antecedents back to mythology, though precursors to science fiction as literature can be seen in Lucian's True History in the 2nd century, some of the Arabian Nights tales, The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter in the 10th century and Ibn al-Nafis ' Theologus Autodidactus in the 13th century.

True, but yellow cows still cannot figure into the confirmation of " All ravens are black " because, in science, confirmation is accomplished by prediction, and predictions are properly stated in the indicative mood.

True History, a Greek-language tale by Syrian writer Lucian ( A. D. 120-185 ), has been called the first ever science fiction story.

Alan Wray Tudyk ( born March 16, 1971 ) is an American actor known for his roles as Hoban " Wash " Washburne in the science fiction / western television series Firefly and movie Serenity, Simon in the British comedy Death at a Funeral, Steve the Pirate in DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story, Sonny in the science fiction drama I, Robot, Doc Potter in 3: 10 to Yuma, Tucker in Tucker & Dale vs Evil, and Alpha in Dollhouse.

True History by the Greek writer Lucian ( A. D. 120 – 185 ) has been called the earliest surviving example of science fiction and the first ever " gay science fiction story ".

: True theory does not require the abstruse language of mathematics to make it clear and to render it acceptable [...] All that is solid and substantial in science and usefully applied in practice, have been made clear by relegating mathematic symbols to their proper store place --- the study.

*: True History documents a fantastic voyage that parodies many mythical travels recounted by other authors, such as Homer ; considered to be among the first works of science fiction.

For science purposes, Local True Solar Time is used.

Under the pseudonym Ralph Milne Farley, Hoar wrote a considerable amount of pulp-magazine science fiction during the period between the world wars, appearing in such publications as Argosy All-Story Weekly, Weird Tales, True Gang Life, and Amazing Stories, as well as occasional essays for The American Mercury, Scientific American, and science fiction fanzines.

Generally speaking, authors concentrating on science fiction topoi are more willing to classify True History as part of the former genres, while those stressing Lucian's satirical motives are more inclined to view his work under the latter premises.

Additionally, they point out that True History was written in response to another work which also contained science fictional elements, that is Antonius Diogenes ’ lost Of the Wonderful Things Beyond Thule, whose protagonist also reached the moon.

In sum, typical science fiction themes and topoi appearing in True History are:

" I will merely remark that the sprightliness and sophistication of True History make it read like a joke at the expense of nearly all early-modern science fiction, that written between, say, 1910 and 1940.

* The Galvanism experiment performed on George Forster was explored in the science channel's Dark Matters: Twisted But True.