Series
Realtime
Vernor Vinge · 2 novels · 1 novelette · 1984–1986
Vernor Vinge's The Peace War introduces Paul Hoehler, inventor of the 'bobble' — an impenetrable force-field technology seized by the authoritarian Peace Authority to enforce global dominance. Decades after being driven into hiding, Hoehler works in secret with fellow scientists, including a talented newcomer, to challenge the Authority's grip on the world. Marooned in Realtime continues the story decades further on; the two novels, along with the novella 'The Ungoverned', are collected together as Across Realtime.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
Realtime at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1980s3
Shape
2 novels · 1 novelette
1 author · completed series
reads like:science fictionsurvivalour worldnear futuretenseadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 3 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Peace Wardarkest
- The Ungovernedbrightest · most intense
- Marooned in Realtimecalmest