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  • The bobbler gives Vinge an opportunity to look at time travel in a very intuitive way: by making it into something that isn't really time travel.

    Archive 2009-07-01 Kristen 2009

  • The bobbler gives Vinge an opportunity to look at time travel in a very intuitive way: by making it into something that isn't really time travel.

    Reviews of fantasy and science fiction books John 2009

  • The bobbler surrounds whatever it's pointed at in a bubble that functions as a cross between an impenetrable force field and a pocket universe.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Kristen 2008

  • The Peace Authority is mainly concerned with making sure humanity never again reaches the point where it can destroy itself, and to ensure this doesn't happen it uses the bobbler to eliminate not just dissidents and revolters but also the engineers, scientists, and technologists capable of producing advanced industry.

    Reviews of fantasy and science fiction books John 2008

  • The Peace Authority is mainly concerned with making sure humanity never again reaches the point where it can destroy itself, and to ensure this doesn't happen it uses the bobbler to eliminate not just dissidents and revolters but also the engineers, scientists, and technologists capable of producing advanced industry.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Kristen 2008

  • While in the midst of the long-anticipated Cold War showdown between the US and USSR, scientists develop a tool that can neutralize even the most powerful nuclear weapons being wielded by the two sides: the bobbler.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Kristen 2008

  • While in the midst of the long-anticipated Cold War showdown between the US and USSR, scientists develop a tool that can neutralize even the most powerful nuclear weapons being wielded by the two sides: the bobbler.

    Reviews of fantasy and science fiction books John 2008

  • The bobbler surrounds whatever it's pointed at in a bubble that functions as a cross between an impenetrable force field and a pocket universe.

    Reviews of fantasy and science fiction books John 2008

  • For Paul Naismith, the penitent inventor of the bobbler who has lived in hiding during the Peace Authority's rule, this discovery could be the wedge he needs to finally break the Authority's grip on global power.

    Reviews of fantasy and science fiction books John 2008

  • For Paul Naismith, the penitent inventor of the bobbler who has lived in hiding during the Peace Authority's rule, this discovery could be the wedge he needs to finally break the Authority's grip on global power.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Kristen 2008

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