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A tremendous work of hard science fiction, filled with great ideas about one very possible future for mankind. On top of that, it's a good, solid murder mystery. This book is the sequel to The Peace War, but you don't need to read the first book to enjoy this one, it stands on its own. In Marooned in Realtime, 50 million years have passed on Earth. The last humans alive on Earth are refugees from the 21st Century, "bobbling" forward to find a place and time where they can live and start over. Bobbling is a means of freezing time inside of an area, and unfreezing again at a set period in the future - the 300 or so remaining humans have been bobbling forward at intervals ranging from centuries to millions of years, looking for other survivors, habitable land, and evidence about what happened in the 21st Century that destroyed the rest of humanity.
In the story, one woman of the small group of remaining humans is left outside while the rest of the community bobbles ahead. Alone, "marooned in real-time" she faces the elements and fights for survival. A century later, upon coming out of stasis and realizing what happened, the last remaining cop on Earth has to try and track down the person responsible for her death.
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Marooned in Realtime by Vernor Vinge
crashsolo23, February 10, 2008
A tremendous work of hard science fiction, filled with great ideas about one very possible future for mankind. On top of that, it's a good, solid murder mystery. This book is the sequel to The Peace War, but you don't need to read the first book to enjoy this one, it stands on its own. In Marooned in Realtime, 50 million years have passed on Earth. The last humans alive on Earth are refugees from the 21st Century, "bobbling" forward to find a place and time where they can live and start over. Bobbling is a means of freezing time inside of an area, and unfreezing again at a set period in the future - the 300 or so remaining humans have been bobbling forward at intervals ranging from centuries to millions of years, looking for other survivors, habitable land, and evidence about what happened in the 21st Century that destroyed the rest of humanity.In the story, one woman of the small group of remaining humans is left outside while the rest of the community bobbles ahead. Alone, "marooned in real-time" she faces the elements and fights for survival. A century later, upon coming out of stasis and realizing what happened, the last remaining cop on Earth has to try and track down the person responsible for her death.
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