Description:

The Peace War is quintessential hard-science adventure. This fast-paced hard-science thriller garnered Vinge the first of his four Hugo nominations for best novel. 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 Author-ity 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.