The Peace War

The Peace War

Vernor Vinge

#1661 of 8,085 books · #372 in Science Fiction

Shortlisted for the Hugo Award for Best Novel (1985), the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (1985), and the Prometheus Award (1985).

The Peace Authority conquered the world with a weapon that never should have been a weapon--the "bobble," a spherical force-field impenetrable by any force known to mankind. Encasing governmental installations and military bases in bobbles, the Authority becomes virtually omnipotent. But they've never caught Paul Hoehler, the maverick who invented the technology, and who has been working quietly for decades to develop a way to defeat the Authority. With the help of an underground network of determined, independent scientists and a teenager who may be the apprentice genius he's needed for so long, he will shake the world.