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The Peace War by Vernor Vinge

After the World Ends

Fifty years before, the Peace Authority took control of governments worldwide with a radically different weapon, the bobbler, which encased its targets within an impenetrable force field, rendering resistance impotent. After the decimation caused by severe plagues, civilization fell into a semifeudal state, and all high technology was banned.

But Paul Naismith, inventor of the bobbler, has never given up hope, and having hidden from the usurpers for decades, he is finally ready to lead the tinker underground against the evil he helped to create. The odds against them seem impossibly long. Nothing has been able to defeat the Peace Authority's bobbler.

Until now . . .

Combines the tautness of a political thriller with strong characterizations. A suspenseful story.
--Library Journal

Conveys the excitement of a conceptual breakthrough as well as the gap between theory and actuality.
--Publishers Weekly

A fascinating scientific concept worked into a colorful, carefully thought-out future.
--Locus
Vinge, Vernor: -

Vernor Vinge is the multi Hugo Award-winning author of A Fire Upon the Deep, A Deepness in the Sky, and Rainbow's End. Known for his rigorous hard-science approach to his science fiction, he became an iconic figure among cybernetic scientists with the publication in 1981 of his novella True Names, which is considered a seminal, visionary work of Internet fiction. His many books also include Marooned in Realtime and The Peace War.

Born in Waukesha, Wisconsin and raised in Central Michigan, Vinge is the son of geographers. Fascinated by science and particularly computers from an early age, he has a Ph.D. in computer science, and taught mathematics and computer science at San Diego State University for thirty years. He has gained a great deal of attention both here and abroad for his theory of the coming machine intelligence Singularity. Sought widely as a speaker to both business and scientific groups, he lives in San Diego, California.

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ISBN 13 9780765308832
ISBN 10 0765308835
Title The Peace War
Author Vernor Vinge
Series Peace War
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher St Martin's Press
Year published 2003-12-01
Number of pages 304
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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