Vernor Vinge

On a distant future Earth where the human race has inexplicably dwindled to some three hundred members, a secretive person harbors a deadly secret that he or she is willing to kill in order to protect. By the Hugo Award-winning author of A Deepness in the Sky and A Fire Upon Deep. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Marooned in Realtime

Elliot Kevane

"But, like us, he couldn't replace his autons. He had lost most of them when I found him; I wouldn't have stood a chance a hundred megayears earlier. I suppose, if I had stayed long enough, I could have beaten him. The price would have been my living more thousands of years; the price would have been my soul. In the end, I decided to let him be." She was silent for a long while, the coldness slowly departing from her face, to be replaced by.. tears? Were they for the last centaur-or for the millennia she had spent, never finding more than the mystery she began with?

Really great sci fi. The unfolding of information is very controlled and well paced. A little contrived in the ending, in a similar way to Deepness

Hernando

MiR is a great thrilling book. 

" For those who are marooned without hope of rescue" gives a more special meaning when reading the victim's diary . That was a truly sense of loneliness. 

I did not read the first book but it was not necessary to enjoy this one.

Multiple Hugo Award winner Vernor Vinge takes readers on a fifty-million-year trip to a future where humanity's fate will be decided in a dangerous game of high-tech survival. In this taut thriller, a Hugo finalist for Best Novel, nobody knows why there are only three hundred humans left alive on the Earth fifty million years from now. Opinion is fiercely divided on whether to settle in and plant the seed of mankind anew, or to continue using high-energy stasis fields, or "bobbles," in venturing into the future. When somebody is murdered, it's obvious someone has a secret he or she is willing to kill to preserve.The murder intensifies the rift between the two factions, threatening the survival of the human race. It's up to 21st century detective Wil Brierson, the only cop left in the world, to find the culprit, a diabolical fiend whose lust for power could cause the utter extinction of man. Filled with excitement and adventure, Vinge's tense SF puzzler will satisfy readers with its sense of wonder and engaging characters, one of whom is a murderer with a unique modus operandi. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Marooned in Realtime

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