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Marooned in Realtime (Hardcover)

by Vernor Vinge (Author) "On the day of the big rescue, Wil Brierson took a walk on the beach ..." (more)

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Publisher: St Martins Pr; International Edition edition (September 1986)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0312942958
ISBN-13: 978-0312942953

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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. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Stranded, May 20 2004

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Taking place 50 million years after The Singularity -- a point in the 23rd century in which most of humanity disappears mysteriously -- The Peace War's sequel, Marooned in Realtime, centers around a murder mystery. Who killed one of the few remaining humans left on Earth by stranding the person outside of the bobbles -- a spherical stasis field in which time stops -- inside which everyone else was letting the centuries slip by?

Marooned in Realtime is certainly the equal of its predecessor, The Peace War...if not slightly better. In this book, there is genuine suffering as well as genuine hope...both human conditions conveyed by several different characters and both portrayed very well. Vinge makes the reader truly feel for the characters...even the villians.

Vinge also does a reasonably good job of conveying the far-future world...with its myriad of lifeforms and strange ways...as well as describing the peoples' reactions (good and otherwise) to this new world.

The only problem with the story was slight. I thought Vinge could have drawn the action scenes a bit better...I found them to be a bit tough to visualize. (Was that the point?) But overall, Vinge has once again created a marvelous story of a future humanity...one with its flaws and excesses...but also one which should inspire those today to leave our progeny something in which they may not only be proud, but in which allows them the best possible lives they can have...and then to do the same for those in which come after them.

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