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Marooned in Realtime
Marooned in Realtime
Author: Vernor Vinge
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...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780765308849
ISBN-10: 0765308843
Publication Date: 10/1/2004
Pages: 288
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Publisher: Tor Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Note: "Marooned" is a sequel to "The Peace War" but I have not read the latter and didn't even a little lost. I will go back and read it now.

Vinge is a master of the genre - a genius of hard sci-fi. "Marooned" is a murder mystery set in a post-singularity Earth. The remnants of humanity skip forward through time years at a time, "bobbling" themselves in impenetrable force fields that stop time within their boundaries. Being left outside one of these force fields without medical care or any technology is a death sentence. And that's what happens to one of the characters. Our protagonist, a detective in a former life, is left to find the thief, who had decades to cover his or her tracks.


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