Peace War - Brossura

Vinge, Vernor

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0765308835 ISBN 13: 9780765308832

Casa editrice: Tor Trade, 2003

Riassunto

Having escaped capture by the Authority, who would continue to use his bobble technology as a weapon, maverick inventor Paul Hoehler works in an underground network of independent scientists and takes on a promising young apprentice who may hold the key to their survival. 17,500 first printing.

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L'autore:

Vernor Vinge has won five Hugo Awards, two of them in the Zones of Thought series: A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky. Known for his rigorous hard-science approach to his science fiction, 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. His many books also include Marooned in Realtime, Rainbows End and The Peace War.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

After the World Ends

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.

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.

Until now . . .

"Combines the tautness of a political thriller with strong characterizations. A suspenseful story."
--Library Journal

"Conveys the excitement of a conceptual breakthrough as well as the gap between theory and actuality."
--Publishers Weekly

"A fascinating scientific concept worked into a colorful, carefully thought-out future."
--Locus

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Tor Trade
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0765308835
• ISBN 13: 9780765308832
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 304