Marooned in Realtime

Vinge, Vernor

never could accept the talk about the beauty and balance of nature—when illustrated by grotesque forms of sudden death.


he never could accept the talk about the beauty and balance of nature—when illustrated by grotesque forms of sudden death.


“Sometimes innocent people have to pay for the mistakes of others, Inspector.


By the beginning of the twenty-third, there were three billion people in the Earth/Luna volume. Three billion people and corresponding processing power—all less than three light-seconds apart.


Juan had become an insect, one whose hive spread through time instead of space.