Across Realtime

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Vernor Vinge: Across Realtime (Hardcover, 1993, Millennium)

Hardcover, 304 pages

Published Nov. 15, 1993 by Millennium.

ISBN:
978-1-85798-118-6
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OCLC Number:
29466455

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5 stars (1 review)

Anthology containing The Peace War and Marooned in Realtime.

5 editions

Review of 'Across realtime' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

In 1984, I read Vernor Vinge's Peace War when it was serialised in Analog Magazine. Years later elements of that story still stayed with me and - since this was the age of e-books - I decided to read it again. For obscure reasons, the novel and its follow up Marooned in Realtime were not available on any platform I cared to search, including Gollancz's own SF Gateway site (although his Zones of Thought series was readily available).

I would have given up, but it niggled at me, so I finally bit the bullet and bought a dead tree copy - the compendium Across Realtime. I'm glad I did.

Like the best science fiction, Across Realtime riffs off a simple idea: the bobbles. These are shiny spheres that are created by a bobble generator. They can be any size (depending on the power available) and they can last for …