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After being out of print for more than a decade, one of Vernor Vinge's earliest novels is available once again. Welcome back to The Peace War, the Hugo Awardnominated 1984 classic about how scientific breakthroughs can be turned into civilization-altering weapons by unscrupulous political organizations.
When a group of researchers, led by genius mathematician Paul Hoehler, discover a way to generate "bobbles -- impenetrable, spherical force fields that can separate small areas of space from the normal universe -- a cadre of radicals at the lab site uses the technology to encapsulate important government and military installations all over the world in the name of peace. Fifty years later, the dictatorial group (known as the Peace Authority) has stopped war and mass killings; but in doing so, it has thrown civilization back centuries and has virtually wiped out scientific innovation, most of which is considered illegal. There is, however, an underground network of freethinkers and scientists known as Tinkers, who are plotting to overthrow the Peace Authority and free the millions of innocents being oppressed by the fanatical tyrants. Leading the cause is no other than Paul Hoehler, the man who discovered the bobble technology half a century earlier!
Fans of Vinge's later works -- like the shelf-bending Hugo Awardwinning novels A Fire upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky -- will delight in this visionary work, a quintessential hard science fiction tale that is just as powerful today as it was in 1984. It's a classic, pure and simple! Paul Goat Allen
Genre: Science Fiction
After being out of print for more than a decade, one of Vernor Vinge's earliest novels is available once again. Welcome back to The Peace War, the Hugo Awardnominated 1984 classic about how scientific breakthroughs can be turned into civilization-altering weapons by unscrupulous political organizations.
When a group of researchers, led by genius mathematician Paul Hoehler, discover a way to generate "bobbles -- impenetrable, spherical force fields that can separate small areas of space from the normal universe -- a cadre of radicals at the lab site uses the technology to encapsulate important government and military installations all over the world in the name of peace. Fifty years later, the dictatorial group (known as the Peace Authority) has stopped war and mass killings; but in doing so, it has thrown civilization back centuries and has virtually wiped out scientific innovation, most of which is considered illegal. There is, however, an underground network of freethinkers and scientists known as Tinkers, who are plotting to overthrow the Peace Authority and free the millions of innocents being oppressed by the fanatical tyrants. Leading the cause is no other than Paul Hoehler, the man who discovered the bobble technology half a century earlier!
Fans of Vinge's later works -- like the shelf-bending Hugo Awardwinning novels A Fire upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky -- will delight in this visionary work, a quintessential hard science fiction tale that is just as powerful today as it was in 1984. It's a classic, pure and simple! Paul Goat Allen
Genre: Science Fiction
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Hardback Editions
December 1984 : Hardback
| Title: The Peace War Author(s): Vernor Vinge ISBN: 0-89366-252-6 / 978-0-89366-252-3 (USA edition) Publisher: Ultramarine Publishing Company Inc. Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
August 1984 : Hardback
| Title: The Peace War Author(s): Vernor Vinge ISBN: 0-312-94342-3 / 978-0-312-94342-4 (USA edition) Publisher: St Martins Pr Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
August 1984 : Hardback
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June 1984 : Hardback
| Title: The Peace War Author(s): Vernor Vinge ISBN: 0-317-58849-4 / 978-0-317-58849-1 (USA edition) Publisher: Ultramarine Pub Co Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
1984 : Hardback
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Paperback Editions
December 2003 : Paperback
| Title: The Peace War Author(s): Vernor Vinge ISBN: 0-7653-0883-5 / 978-0-7653-0883-2 (USA edition) Publisher: Tor Books Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
January 2003 : Paperback
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January 1987 : Paperback
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1987 : Paperback
| Title: The peace war Author(s): Vernor Vinge ISBN: 0-330-29959-X / 978-0-330-29959-6 (UK edition) Publisher: Pan Books Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
1987 : Mass Market Paperback
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1986 : Mass Market Paperback
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June 1985 : Paperback
| Title: The Peace War (Across Real Time, Bk 1) Author(s): Vernor Vinge ISBN: 0-671-55965-6 / 978-0-671-55965-6 (USA edition) Publisher: Baen Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
January 1984 : Paperback
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1984 : Mass Market Paperback
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Other Editions
April 2010 : Kindle edition
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