Marginally better than the first book. If you are looking for a quick science fiction read, Vernor Vinge's *Marooned in Realtime* might scratch that itch.

This was a fun sequel to The Peace War which does a better job with character development and has a fun murder mystery to solve 500 million years after the first book. Similar to The Forever War, this book asks a lot of readers to imagine humans traveling thousands or even millions of years into the future. Where Haldeman chose stargates as his time-traveling devices, Vernor Vinge uses the great idea of bobbles: stasis spheres that hold anything inside them for predictable amounts of time during...

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Storyline: 3/5Characters: 2/5Writing Style: 3/5World: 3/5"Marooned in Realtime" is a book that kicks off with surprises. The first surprise? It doesn't do what sequels usually do: pick up on the hinted-at crises from the previous book. Instead, Vernor Vinge does something rather clever. He actually considers the repercussions of the technological introductions he made in the first book. You can usually fault authors for plot holes and overlooking details when they introduce new tech; it's tough ...

Reread in 2019. This 1986 novel, Marooned in Realtime by Vernor Vinge, still holds up remarkably well almost 35 years later. Jo Walton's review is definitely worth checking out: https://www.tor.com/2009/08/07/vernor...Back already? Okay, she nailed it. The Singularity stuff – the idea that it might actually happen in real life – isn't quite as trendy now, but as a science fiction plot device, it's pure genius. And Vinge sets his fictional singularity in the early 23rd century, far enough in the ...

This one really hit the spot for me. It's an imaginative story about desperate missions, individual lives colliding, and the overwhelming need for collaboration to save humanity, all framed within an unusual murder mystery. Vernor Vinge had already used the concept of stasis fields, called bobbles, as a one-way time machine to the future to great effect in his earlier work, "The Peace War." In that book, the Peace Federation, a governing body, takes control by bobbling armies, nukes, and enemy h...

Bearing a stylistic and thematic resemblance to Asimov's classic *Robots of Dawn*, *Marooned in Realtime* presents a far-future human colony where a renowned detective is summoned to investigate the murder of one of its founders. He's somewhat reluctantly paired with a nine-thousand-year-old partner. The narrative occasionally wanders, but Vinge compensates with compelling world-building. While the characters aren't deeply developed, the protagonist at least holds our interest. Vinge successfull...

Only three hundred humans left on Earth. A murder mystery spanning fifty million years. A meditation on deep time and evolution, on civilization and intelligence. What more could you want? *Marooned in Realtime* by Vernor Vinge is a very good book. If you're looking for thought-provoking science fiction, this is a must-read.

I clicked on 3 stars for the rating, but honestly, *Marooned in Realtime* deserves a bit more than that. The book has some really interesting portrayals of how different groups of people might see and choose to live in the far future. It's thought-provoking stuff. I did have a few reservations, though. First off, I read it as part of *Across Realtime* (an omnibus of *The Peace War*, *The Ungoverned*, and *Marooned In Realtime*). Each of the stories in the omnibus had threads connecting them, b...

This was a fantastic little book. I found it so intriguing – I was completely thrown off by a little glitch in the system because, in our library catalog, "Marooned in Realtime" has a publication date of 2006, which I totally believed throughout the entire book. Actually, it was written in 1986, before many of the most significant developments of the internet age. Yet Vernor Vinge's predictions about how technology would develop over time seemed spot-on. Part of the story's background involves a...