The peace war
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Product Description<br/><br/><br/><br/>The Peace War is quintessential hard-science adventure. The Peace Authority conquered the world with a weapon that never should have been a weapon--the "bobble," a spherical force-field impenetrable by any force known to mankind. Encasing governmental installations and military bases in bobbles, the Authority becomes virtually omnipotent. But they've never caught Paul Hoehler, the maverick who invented the technology, and who has been working quietly for decades to develop a way to defeat the Authority. With the help of an underground network of determined, independent scientists and a teenager who may be the apprentice genius he's needed for so long, he will shake the world, in the fast-paced hard-science thriller that garnered Vinge the first of his four Hugo nominations for best novel.<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>Review<br/><br/><br/>"Combines the tautness of a political thriller with strong characterizations. A suspenseful story that will appeal to fans of sf and intrigue alike."<br/><br/>"A fascinating scientific concept worked into a colorful, carefully thought out future."<br/><br/>"Vinge, himself a mathematician, conveys the excitement of a conceptual breakthrough as well as the gap between theory and actuality."<br/><br/><br/>From the Inside Flap<br/><br/><br/><br/>After the World Ends<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>Until now . . .<br/><br/>"Combines the tautness of a political thriller with strong characterizations. A suspenseful story."<br/>--<br/>Library Journal<br/><br/>"Conveys the excitement of a conceptual breakthrough as well as the gap between theory and actuality."<br/>--<br/>Publishers Weekly<br/><br/>"A fascinating scientific concept worked into a colorful, carefully thought-out future."<br/>--<br/>Locus<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>About the Author<br/><br/><br/><br/>Born in Waukesha, Wisconsin and raised in Central Michigan, science fiction writer<br/>Vernor 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.<br/><br/>He has won Hugo Awards for his novels<br/>A Fire Upon the Deep (1992) and<br/>A Deepness in the Sky (1999), and for the novella "Fast Times at Fairmont High" (2001). Known for his rigorous hard-science approach to his SF, 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.<br/><br/>He has also 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.<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>1<br/> <br/>The Old California Shopping Center was the Santa Ynez Police Company’s biggest account—and one of Miguel Rosas’ most enjoyable beats. On this beautiful Sunday afternoon, the Center had hundreds of customers, people who had traveled many kilometers along Old 101 to be there. This Sunday was especially busy: All during the week, produce and quality reports had shown that the stores would have best buys. And it wouldn’t rain till late. Mike wandered up and down the malls, stopping every now and then to talk or go into a shop and have a closer look at the merchandise. Most people knew how effective the shoplift-detection gear was, and so far he hadn’t had any business wha
The peace war Vernor Vinge
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Product Description<br/><br/><br/><br/>The Peace War is quintessential hard-science adventure. The Peace Authority conquered the world with a weapon that never should have been a weapon--the "bobble," a spherical force-field impenetrable by any force known to mankind. Encasing governmental installations and military bases in bobbles, the Authority becomes virtually omnipotent. But they've never caught Paul Hoehler, the maverick who invented the technology, and who has been working quietly for decades to develop a way to defeat the Authority. With the help of an underground network of determined, independent scientists and a teenager who may be the apprentice genius he's needed for so long, he will shake the world, in the fast-paced hard-science thriller that garnered Vinge the first of his four Hugo nominations for best novel.<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>Review<br/><br/><br/>"Combines the tautness of a political thriller with strong characterizations. A suspenseful story that will appeal to fans of sf and intrigue alike."<br/><br/>"A fascinating scientific concept worked into a colorful, carefully thought out future."<br/><br/>"Vinge, himself a mathematician, conveys the excitement of a conceptual breakthrough as well as the gap between theory and actuality."<br/><br/><br/>From the Inside Flap<br/><br/><br/><br/>After the World Ends<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>Until now . . .<br/><br/>"Combines the tautness of a political thriller with strong characterizations. A suspenseful story."<br/>--<br/>Library Journal<br/><br/>"Conveys the excitement of a conceptual breakthrough as well as the gap between theory and actuality."<br/>--<br/>Publishers Weekly<br/><br/>"A fascinating scientific concept worked into a colorful, carefully thought-out future."<br/>--<br/>Locus<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>About the Author<br/><br/><br/><br/>Born in Waukesha, Wisconsin and raised in Central Michigan, science fiction writer<br/>Vernor 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.<br/><br/>He has won Hugo Awards for his novels<br/>A Fire Upon the Deep (1992) and<br/>A Deepness in the Sky (1999), and for the novella "Fast Times at Fairmont High" (2001). Known for his rigorous hard-science approach to his SF, 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.<br/><br/>He has also 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.<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>1<br/> <br/>The Old California Shopping Center was the Santa Ynez Police Company’s biggest account—and one of Miguel Rosas’ most enjoyable beats. On this beautiful Sunday afternoon, the Center had hundreds of customers, people who had traveled many kilometers along Old 101 to be there. This Sunday was especially busy: All during the week, produce and quality reports had shown that the stores would have best buys. And it wouldn’t rain till late. Mike wandered up and down the malls, stopping every now and then to talk or go into a shop and have a closer look at the merchandise. Most people knew how effective the shoplift-detection gear was, and so far he hadn’t had any business wha