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by zwatcher on March 15th, 2009

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Does anyone know the author of a couple of novels about a device that encloses things in a shinny, silver, frictionless bubble within which time is frozen until the bubble ceases to exist at a predetermined time later? the bubbles are indestructible.

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  • by edndori on March 15th, 2009

    edndori

    The author is Vernor Vinge.
    The two books using this device that I know of are:
    "The Peace War"
    "Marooned in Realtime"

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  • by MadMike on August 29th, 2009

    MadMike

    Larry Niven also has these in some of his books Protector is one of them.

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  • by zwatcher on March 15th, 2009

    zwatcher

    in one novel an entire town/colony is traveling forward through time by "suspending" themselves with a series of the bubbles and during one of the stops in real time one of the colonists is put outside the area of effect and left to die during a barren period in that places time by an enemy, the others find her parchment journal and remains in the next stop centuries later.
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    another novel uses the bubbles with nuclear bombs to travel through space by dropping a bomb, enclosing themselves for a short time during which it goes off, propelling them forward again and again.
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    the cover art of one of the books shows a huge silver sphere reflecting a blue sky with a few clouds.

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  • by Anonymous on March 15th, 2009

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    I don't, sorry, but it sounds interesting.

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