Across Realtime Author:Vernor Vinge Comprising The Peace War and Marooned in Realtime, Across Realtime melds brilliant hard-science and all-too-possible social speculation into a gripping depiction of a revolution against "peace", a revolution that will continue beyond Paul's time... on a near deserted Earth 50 million years in the future...among a small group of survivors faced w... more »ith a murder that only someone--one of their number--skilled with a bobbler could commit.« less
Both books in this compendium are original and very creative uses of an idea. Although early works of Vinge, they set the tone and stage for his later works. I enjoyed each book and was very surprised by the originality of the ideas presented.