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    <body><![CDATA[This is two related SciFi novels published together. The first, _The_Peace_War_ is a fairly standard Heinlenesque smart-boy-makes-good nerd fantasy. Nothing revelatory.<br/><br/>The second, _Marooned_In_Realtime_ is a fantastic look at what can happen in a world with one way (forward) time travel....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62780220">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Book contains two earlier novellas &quot;The Peace War&quot; and &quot;Marooned in Realtime.&quot; &quot;The Peace War&quot; suffered from being set in what is now our past, but only minimally. Explores some interesting topics but brings very little scientific rigor to any of them. Plays with levels...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37080713">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I would like to start this review with a comment on the edition I  purchased which, at the time, was out-of-print.  <br/><br/>Across Realtime is a collection of all the Vinge stories set in  this same world/reality. It is supposed to reprint two novels (The Peace War and Marooned in Realtime) as w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11448700">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I haven't read sci-fi in a while. Looking for some good recommendations - this looks good despite my less-then-enthusiastic review of Fire Upon the Deep. May try to read the Red-Blue-Green Mars series as well.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Science fiction from a scientist that explores technology in ways never seen before.  This two book compilation takes place on earth after future singularity events (one for each book).]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Far-future stories describing the &quot;bobble&quot; stasis mechanism, and the effects on society that resulted.  Definitely hard SF.  I enjoyed it, but I felt like there wasn't quite enough here...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Another book from VV that rocks for its technical inventiveness.  I thought it was not quite as good as a fire upon the deep, but it is not bad.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[have read all vv books i am aware of.  so i guess that makes me a vinge-e.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[While not as strong as his Zones of Thought novels, this was my first introduction to Vernor Vinge and thus has a very special place in my heart. Despite its first portion (&quot;The Peace War&quot;) feeling dated with its Cold War background, like most Vinge novels, his ideas are what are most powe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15863402">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A pair of novels, related, but not really a series. They're both good reads in their own right, and illustrate well Vinge's ability to take a interesting technology idea and run with it. The second book especially is a good one to get one thinking about the nature of time.<br/><br/>The second of t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21922204">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My friend Les loaned me this book and I honestly wasn't expecting much.  All I can say without ruining the plot is read the book for at least 40 pages and you will be racing to finish it as quickly as possible.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[If you have not yet discovered Vernor Vinge - read him now! He has not written many Science Fiction books, but the ones he has are some of the best of the genre.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Vinge's stories about an approaching singularity are thought provoking, dramatic, and even pretty funny.]]></body>
    
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