false 167847 9 Multiple Hugo Award winner Vernor Vinge takes readers on a fifty-million-year trip to a future where humanity's fate will be decided in a dangerous game of high-tech survival. In this taut thriller, a Hugo finalist for Best Novel, nobody knows why there are only three hundred humans left alive on the Earth fifty million years from now. Opinion is fiercely divided on whether to settle in and plant the seed of mankind anew, or to continue using high-energy stasis fields, or "bobbles," in venturing into the future. When somebody is murdered, it's obvious someone has a secret he or she is willing to kill to preserve.The murder intensifies the rift between the two factions, threatening the survival of the human race. It's up to 21st century detective Wil Brierson, the only cop left in the world, to find the culprit, a diabolical fiend whose lust for power could cause the utter extinction of man.Filled with excitement and adventure, Vinge's tense SF puzzler will satisfy readers with its sense of wonder and engaging characters, one of whom is a murderer with a unique modus operandi. 448211 1986 Marooned in Realtime total:400|5:106|4:175|3:106|2:12|1:1| 400 1573 541 32 5 0 false false Sun May 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 24 18:08:52 -0700 2009 Sun May 24 20:05:44 -0700 2009 2 The Peace War for the SFDG.

Wow. An amazing work indeed.

The Bobble series (for want of a better label) consists of The Peace War, a novella titled "The Ungoverned", and the present book. I reread "The Ungoverned" ...more...]]> 4 1 false true Tue Feb 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 10 06:06:35 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 17 12:53:08 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 16 12:13:13 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 16 21:37:34 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false true Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 03 05:26:25 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 03 05:32:32 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Oct 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Nov 04 08:48:25 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 04 08:51:04 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jul 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 18:12:26 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 21:50:06 -0700 2009
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...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Feb 13 11:20:25 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 13 11:20:25 -0800 2009 A Brief History of Time. The temporal arrow cannot change direction.

Marooned in Realtime is the most creative murder mystery I have ever read because murder after murder is com...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jan 21 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 08:51:33 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 08:53:57 -0800 2009 Read it.]]> 5 0 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Mar 05 09:41:26 -0800 2007 Sun Mar 11 17:00:52 -0700 2007
That said, this is great Sci-Fi. ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jun 17 00:00:00 -0700 2002 Wed Jan 07 16:44:46 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 16:44:46 -0800 2009
Unfortunetly you have to read the mediocre first book 'The peace war' to completely understand what's going on.]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1986 Sat Jan 24 06:34:02 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 21:40:15 -0800 2009 Introduced the idea of the singularity. I think I will read "A Fire Upon The Deep" next. ]]> 3 0 false false Sat Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 06 07:41:22 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 22:39:15 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun May 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 03 14:27:40 -0700 2009 Sun May 10 11:41:40 -0700 2009
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Part murder mystery, part what if the human race ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed May 02 07:20:03 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 12 14:10:49 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat May 03 21:08:13 -0700 2008 Sat May 03 21:12:18 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jan 02 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Apr 02 10:46:46 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 04 11:37:19 -0700 2008 Marooned In Realtime, I realized that was a mistake. His characters live and breath in extraordinary circumstances. The narrative never loses sight of the science fiction underpinnings of a world far beyond our own, and yet Vinge still knows how t...more...]]>