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A review by thehappybooker
Marooned in Realtime by Vernor Vinge
5.0
What happens when an A-list writer combines a detective story with time-travel themes? Five stars, that's what.
It introduced me to one of my new favorite sci-fi toys: the bobble, which encompasses a large or small area into an impermeable bubble that stops everything inside it, enabling people to pop out of the bubble many years later - even millions of years later.
Great quote (p 261 in ebook): "Biological evolution has no special tendency toward sapience; it heads blindly toward local optima."
I'm not going to spoil the book's plot, but it has at its center a heartbroken, grief-stricken woman who must piece together the circumstances of her beloved's death, and an unusual detective who helps her solve the mystery. Highly recommended.
It introduced me to one of my new favorite sci-fi toys: the bobble, which encompasses a large or small area into an impermeable bubble that stops everything inside it, enabling people to pop out of the bubble many years later - even millions of years later.
Great quote (p 261 in ebook): "Biological evolution has no special tendency toward sapience; it heads blindly toward local optima."
I'm not going to spoil the book's plot, but it has at its center a heartbroken, grief-stricken woman who must piece together the circumstances of her beloved's death, and an unusual detective who helps her solve the mystery. Highly recommended.