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    <body><![CDATA[This was a fantastic little book.  Curious - i was taken in by a little glitch in the system because in our library catalog, the book has a pub date of 2006, which i completely believed, all through the book.  Actually, it was written in 1986, prior to many of the most significant developments of th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6284228">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this one pretty much straight through. I like hard sci-fi and I found the premise intriguing. Basically, this is the story of a group of people who have &quot;bobbled&quot; forward in time for various reasons and have all found themselves on the wrong side of the Singularity. They are trying ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11514426">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Sci-fi murder mystery with a strong plot and great characters - but Vinge's real strength lies in creating unusual visions of alien life, such as &quot;dragon birds&quot; that look like turkey vultures but have adapted to light wildfires by dropping flinty pebbles onto tinder &quot;nests.&quot;  The...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76693714">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[So far pretty good -- I'm really liking vernor vinge (I came across him from Luke Barage(sp?) of science fiction book podcast)<br/><br/>This is a thought provoking book about what happens if we have the ability to 'booble' through time (with an added bonus mystery of where does everyone go about t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64291780">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Vernor Vinge started writing this in 1983. 25 years ago. It was an amazing view on the future of humankind. I was stunned by the technology he envisioned - none of which has been proven wrong in these last 25 years. That in itself is miraculous. <br/>Read it.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the best Sci Fi books I've ever read.<br/><br/>Unfortunetly you have to read the mediocre first book 'The peace war' to completely understand what's going on.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Need to re-read this to compare to Stross's stuff. Ok, I barely remembered this. I think I like it much better now than I did then. Pretty cool extrapolation of what had not happened yet;)<br/>Introduced the idea of the singularity. I think I will read &quot;A Fire Upon The Deep&quot; next.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A murder/sci-fi story of time travelers and their efforts to restart the human race.  I really enjoyed this story.  There were concepts that went over my head, but who doesn't like a good time traveling murder story?]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I dig it...as with what I've read of Vinge's novels, the big, sweeping, brain-hurting ideas carry the book.  The dialogue and interpersonal stories are decidedly...dweeby (for lack of a better term)...cardboard and comically simplified, but I've learned to expect that.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Bobbles, where can they take you? A detective novel.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Awesome,  I had to pull a late night reading session towards the end because of the pure awesomeness. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What an improvement over the previous book, and I really liked that one.  In this one, Vinge is thinking Big.  This book spans more eons than I could keep track of, but he manages this time to flesh out the characters quite a bit better.  <br/><br/>Part murder mystery, part what if the human race ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19733788">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I am a big fan of Vernor Vinge, but - having said that - I was disappointed when I first read The Peace War. Marooned in Real Time is set in the same universe as The Peace War, but is a far better piece; Vinge returns to his style of big ideas and detailed exploration of technology and its implicati...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21551376">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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