- Fiction, Inventors, Political aspects of Technology, Power (Social sciences)
First in a quintessential hard-science fiction adventure, Hugo Award-winning author Vernor Vinge's The Peace War follows a scientist determined to put an end to the militarization of his greatest invention--and of the government behind it.
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Epic, contemporary, grave and classical in form.
- intimateepic
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Vernor Vinge
- First published
- 1984
- Pages
- 311
- Publisher
- Pan, Tom Doherty Associates, Tor Books
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780671559656
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