on 13/6/01 7:37 AM, Joshua Bell at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Marooned in Realtime (Vernor Vinge)
>
> *** SPOILERS FOR _THE PEACE WAR_ (?) ***
>
> Finally - a real book!
>
> I picked this up as Vinge books tend to be (a) good and (b) out of print. It
> turned out to be a sequel to a book - The Peace War - which I haven't yet
> read.
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> 4 / 5 on the Josh-O-Meter
I first read _The Peace War_ as a serial in Analog. I'm not sure if
_Marooned in Realtime_ was also serialised in Analog. As well as being
published as separate volumes the books were published as an omnibus edition
_Across Realtime_ in 1986 and an expanded edition in 1991 with another
shorter story "The Ungoverned" in the middle, which is the edition I have
(stored away somewhere I can't locate).
I found _The Peace War_ the best part. "The Ungoverned" introduces the
policeman character in _Marooned in Realtime_ (as I remember) and is a weird
story of unbridled Libertarianism where individuals with private nuclear
arsenals fight off the evil tax-collecting government (or something).
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William T Goodall
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http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk
