The peace war
By: Vernor Vinge.
Edition: 1st Tor ed.
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
Subjects: Inventors -- Fiction.; Power (Social sciences) -- Fiction.; Technology -- Political aspects -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Fifty years before, the "Peace Authority" took control of governments worldwide with a radically different weapon, the "bobbler, ' which encased its targets within an impenetrable force field, rendering resistance useless. after the takeover come the plagues; civilization fell into a semifeudal state, and all high technology was banned. But Paul Naismith, inventer of the bobbler, has never given up hope. After having hidden from the usurping Peace Authority for decades, he is finally ready to lead the Tinker underground against the evil he helped to create. The odds against them seem impossibly long. Nothing has been able to defeat the Peace Authority's bobbler. Until now ...