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The Peace War Paperback - 2003

by Vernor Vinge


From the rear cover

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

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  • Title The Peace War
  • Author Vernor Vinge
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st PB/1st
  • Pages 306
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher St. Martins Press-3PL, NY
  • Date 2003-12-01
  • ISBN 9780765308832 / 0765308835
  • Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.8 in (20.83 x 13.97 x 2.03 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Science fiction, Political fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003056307
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Vernor Vinge has won five Hugo Awards, two of them in the Zones of Thought series: A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky. 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, Rainbows End and The Peace War.
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