"Vernor Vinge - Across Realtime 1 - The Peace War" - читать интересную книгу автора (Vinge Vernor)

I love this book
it has been inspirational to my life and V Vinge is of the caliber of orson scott card and
the other great scifi writers of this new era!
I know you will like it.
the multiplicity of concepts presented is deep and wide, cyperpunk combined with mono
directional time travel and high tech AI, bio weapons and tinkers, The Peace War is truly
a masterpiece. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Amazing Hard SF., November 6, 2001
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This book reminds me of "The Ringworld Engineers" in that it is
one of the only science fiction stories that I've read that
really tries to make its imaginary world function in a believable
way.
Vinge holds a doctorate in computer science, and it really shows.
There is a certain undeniable logic and elegance to his ideas.
This book is the first introduction of Vinge's idea of the Singularity (google for it, it's
worth it). --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
An epic struggle for freedom, April 15, 2000
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Using its superior weapon, the Peace Authority grabbed control of the world. During
the brief struggle an unknown nation released deadly biological agents. Billions died, and
the Peace Authority stepped in to pick up the pieces. In many places civilisation was left
to revert to feudalism.
So now its fifty years later and the world has had fifty years without a war. The
Authority preserves the peace by stamping out all high energy physics research, they do
not permit any biological experimentation and all large-scale weapons of war are
forbidden.
But everything has its price. Peace has been achieved at the cost of crushing of the
human spirit and the stagnation of human potential. The Authority also tries to suppress
innovation by siphoning off the young intellectual cream to its stronghold, the former
Livermore University campus. There they are trained to work for and think like the Peace
Authority.
The organisation's power is derived from the possession of the ultimate weapon. The
invincible, impenetrable force fields known as the 'Bobble'. Any transgressors are
immediately enclosed in this spherical force field and are trapped for all eternity dying
slowly from asphyxiation in an airless tomb.
Unbeknown to the Authority, small groups have been working together on low energy,
high tech research. The fruits of this research take the form of intelligent weapons,
untraceable communications and computing power many orders of magnitude above
anything the Peace Authority possesses. These groups known as the Tinkers also have as
their ally Paul Hoehler the genius that invented the Bobble and unwittingly unleashed the
Peace Authority on the world. Paul has been trying to for fifty years to undo this harm,
but time is running out for Paul. He is now old and frail, he needs to find an apprentice to
assume his mantle, but genius is a rare commodity and the Peace Authority is finally
closing in on him.
This is a beautifully written novel detailing an ' David and Goliath' struggle between
the Peace Authority and the Tinkers. It is also a graphic lesson in why totalitarianism
doesn't work, no matter how good the intentions of the rulers (the road to Hell is paved