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with such good intentions!). There is no such thing as a good dictatorship.
While I was reading this story I couldn't help but note the many amusing parallels
between the Tinker's struggle with the Authority and the Linux OS developers battle
against a certain popular software company. Like the Tinkers the Linux community are
innovative, adaptable, fast moving and technically advanced. Like the Authority the
popular software company is a ponderous leviathan that is slow to react and frankly has
trouble innovating. Who will win the struggle? Read this excellent book and decide for
yourself.
 This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are
fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.
Copyright ┬й 1991 by Vernor Vinge
 All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in
any form.
A Baen Books Original
Copyright Data: The two novels and novella that compose Across Realtime are
copyright as follows: The Peace War 1984 by Vernor Vinge; тАЬThe Ungoverned,тАЭ ┬й 1985
by Vernor Vinge (first published in Far Frontiers, Fall 1985); Marooned in Realtime ┬й
1986 by Vernor Vinge
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To my parents,
Clarence L. Vinge and Ada Grace Vinge,
with Love.
Acknowledgments:

In writing The Peace War, I am grateful to:
Chuck Glines and Bil Townsend of the US Forest Service for talking to me about Los
Padres National Forest; Jim Concannon and Concannon Winery of Livermore,
California, for their hospitality and a very interesting tour of the Concannon Winery; Lea
Braff, Jim Frenkel, Mike Gannis, Sharon Jarvis, and Joan D. Vinge for all their help and
ideas.
Especially in connection with тАЬThe Ungoverned,тАЭ I want to thank David Friedman for
writing The Machinery of Freedom, Guide to a Radical Capitalism. (Me second edition is
available from Open Court Publishing Company.)
In writing Marooned in Realtime, I am grateful to:
Mike Gannis for many super ideas; Sara Baase, John Carroll, Howard Davidson, Jim
Frenkel, Dipak Gupta, Jay Hill, Sharon Jarvis, and Joan D. Vinge for all their help and
suggestions.
Other people have created zoologies and/or geographies of the far future. Though they
are different from what is described in Marooned in Realtime, they are wonderfully