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Vinge explores a world where all technology is banned,
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This review is from: The Peace War (Paperback)
Another excellent novel from Vinge. In The Peace War, one of his first novels, Vinge explores a world where all technology is banned by the "Peace Authority" in the name of protecting the peace. In this weird anachronistic society underground groups (the Tinkers) create very high tech devices, while travelling around on horseback. With the help of a crippled prodigy, the Tinkers believe they have one final chance to attack the Peace Authority and wrest the world from their control. The Peace War contains scads of hard science and the mechanism by which the Peace Authority controls the peace, the Bobble which is a bubble in which time does not move, is quite ingenious.
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All Bobbled Up,
By themarsman (Georgetown, TX) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Peace War (Paperback)
Stumbling upon this book in my local library, I decided to once again enter a world created by Vernor Vinge. Several years ago I read both of Vinge's awarding winning books: A Fire Upon the Deep & A Deepness in the Sky. Simply put, I have yet to be disappointed by Vinge.In The Peace War, a rogue research group, later calling itself the Peace Authority, takes control of the world after perfecting the art of conjuring and projecting bobbles...impenetrable spherical force-fields. Fifty years after they've taken down nearly every national government on the planet by negating the governments' every weapon with the bobble, a rebellion is finally stirring, a rebellion led by Paul Naismith...a Tinker whose mastery of Banned technology (high-tech stuff was banned by the Authority because it presents a threat to the Authority's power...namely the sole proprietorship of the bobble technology) puts Naismith in the perfect position to help bring about an end (with the help of his fellow Tinkers) to the Peace Authority's tyrannical rule. But Naismith is an elderly man (around 80), and knows his time is waning. Because of this, Naismith takes on an apprentice, someone he can pass his Tinker secrets to...an heir. He chooses (or has thrust upon him, depending on the point of view) Wili Wachendon...for most intents and purposes a thief...but also a mathematical genesis of the highest caliber -- once Naismith instructs him on some fundamentals anyway. Naismith and Wachendon, along with their Tinker friends and a few others, ultimately confront the Peace Authority on their own turf...in more ways than one...where nothing short of the fate of the world lies in the hands of Naismith, Wachendon, and their friends. Once one puts aside the unbelievability factor -- conqueroring every government in the world, even with a technology as incredible as the bobble -- the book is really quite good. The bobble is an interesting concept that Vinge handles quite adeptly...for instance, in the shadows of the large bobbles that surround entire cities, the surrounding ecosystem is dramatically altered because of a change in climactic patterns brought forcefully on by the bobbles. I found this to be a very plausible and common-sense consequence of using the bobbles that I'm not sure every author would have considered. Also, I found it interesting that at least one of Naismith's devices (I won't say which, because it is one of the minor mysteries that gets solved early on in the book) seems to be an "ancestor" to one of the devices used in A Deepness in the Sky written about 15 years later. Overall, The Peace War is certainly worth reading if you are a fan of Vinge, a techy, or are just plain interested in good scifi.
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A fictional explanation,
By Kilgore Trout "(sic)" (CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Peace War (Paperback)
This was Vernor Vinge's fictional working out of the concept of the "technological singularity". This may or may not be a truth of reality, it seems like it probably is, but this is an important work just for being where he developed the concept. (His arguments for believing it to be accurate are made elsewhere.)I HIGHLY recommend this book, and even more his recent short story "Lobsters" (if you can find it). Also "True Names", though that may now be slightly dated...or perhaps not (as technical advances happen, possibilities appear, and disappear, and then sometimes reappear in slightly different forms).
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