ACROSS REALTIME
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.
Copyright © 1991 by Vernor Vinge
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.
A Baen Books Original
Copyright Data: The two novels and novella that compose Across Realtime are copyright as follows: The Peace War 1984 by Vernor Vinge; "The Ungoverned," © 1985 by Vernor Vinge (first published in Far Frontiers, Fall 1985); Marooned in Realtime © 1986 by Vernor Vinge
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To my parents,
Clarence L. Vinge and Ada Grace Vinge,
with Love.
Acknowledgments:
In writing The Peace War, I am grateful to:
Chuck Glines and Bil Townsend of the US Forest Service for talking to me about Los Padres National Forest; Jim Concannon and Concannon Winery of Livermore, California, for their hospitality and a very interesting tour of the Concannon Winery; Lea Braff, Jim Frenkel, Mike Gannis, Sharon Jarvis, and Joan D. Vinge for all their help and ideas.
Especially in connection with "The Ungoverned," I want to thank David Friedman for writing The Machinery of Freedom, Guide to a Radical Capitalism. (Me second edition is available from Open Court Publishing Company.)
In writing Marooned in Realtime, I am grateful to:
Mike Gannis for many super ideas; Sara Baase, John Carroll, Howard Davidson, Jim Frenkel, Dipak Gupta, Jay Hill, Sharon Jarvis, and Joan D. Vinge for all their help and suggestions.
Other people have created zoologies and/or geographies of the far future. Though they are different from what is described in Marooned in Realtime, they are wonderfully interesting:
Dougal Dixon, After Man, St. Martins Press, 1981. Christopher Scotese and Alfred Ziegler, as described in "The Shape of Tomorrow," by Dennis Overbye, Discover, November, 1982, pp. 20-25.