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An episode like this is one of the main plot points of Vernor Vinge's 1986 novel Marooned in Realtime which takes place in the same universe as The Peace war and "The Ungoverned", though rather a lot later than either. It also shares one character from each of the earlier works.

The book was originally serialized in Analog and also appeared in the omnibus collection Across Realtime.

The novel is basically a murder mystery in which the stranding of the lone human is the means by which the murder was committed. While by no means as old as you suggest the style of the book does put me a bit in mind of an earlier era of science fiction writing.

Things you might recall if this is the right story:

• The story takes place about on Earth, but about 50,000,000 years after the present day and both the victim of the plot and the investigating officer find themselves in severe physical danger from the unfamiliar fauna (exploding scavenger beetles and pack-hunting dogoids).
• The story takes place (long) after a technological singularity in which most of humanity disappeared from the Earth. The characters of the story represent the last survivors on the human race embodied and present in human form. Whether there are other survivors is not known.
• The use of the word "bobble" for the time-freezing force fields.
• The characters divide into a few who have access to technology from shortly before the singularity (high techs) and many who do not (low tech). Many of the low techs were criminally embobbled in their original era and arrived with no survival tools of their own. Others were the criminals who sentence was to be bobbled forward to shortly after the emergence of their victim. A sub-plot revolves around the measures used to keep victims from attacking perpetrators.
• The victim of the murder—afraid of ubiquitous, but unobtrusive high-tech surveillance—befriended some barely subs-sapient humanoids and used them to help get her message out.
• The perpetrator of the plot was sentenced to live out his (high-tech supported) lifespan alone while the rest of the colony bobbled forward.

The book was nominated for the Hugo and the Nebula and won the Prometheus.

An episode like this is one of the main plot points of Vernor Vinge's 1986 novel Marooned in Realtime which takes place in the same universe as The Peace war and "The Ungoverned", though rather a lot later than either. It also shares one character from each of the earlier works.

The book was originally serialized in Analog and also appeared in the omnibus collection Across Realtime.

The novel is basically a murder mystery in which the stranding of the lone human is the means by which the murder was committed. While by no means as old as you suggest the style of the book does put me a bit in mind of an earlier era of science fiction writing.

Things you might recall if this is the right story:

• The story takes place about on Earth, but about 50,000,000 years after the present day and both the victim of the plot and the investigating officer find themselves in severe physical danger from the unfamiliar fauna (exploding scavenger beetles and pack-hunting dogoids).
• The story takes place (long) after a technological singularity in which most of humanity disappeared from the Earth. The characters of the story represent the last survivors on the human race embodied and present in human form. Whether there are other survivors is not known.
• The use of the word "bobble" for the time-freezing force fields.
• The characters divide into a few who have access to technology from shortly before the singularity (high techs) and many who do not (low tech). Many of the low techs were criminally embobbled in their original era and arrived with no survival tools of their own. Others were the criminals who sentence was to be bobbled forward to shortly after the emergence of their victim. A sub-plot revolves around the measures used to keep victims from attacking perpetrators.
• The victim of the murder—afraid of ubiquitous, but unobtrusive high-tech surveillance—befriended some barely subs-sapient humanoids and used them to help get her message out.
• The perpetrator of the plot was sentenced to live out his (high-tech supported) lifespan alone while the rest of the colony bobbled forward.

The book was nominated for the Hugo and the Nebula and won the Prometheus.

An episode like this is one of the main plot points of Vernor Vinge's 1986 novel Marooned in Realtime which takes place in the same universe as The Peace war and "The Ungoverned", though rather a lot later than either. It also shares on character from each of the earlier works.

The book was originally serialized in Analog and also appeared in the omnibus collection Across Realtime.

The novel is basically a murder mystery in which the stranding of the lone human is the means by which the murder was committed. While by no means as old as you suggest the style of the book does put me a bit in mind of an earlier era of science fiction writing.

Things you might recall if this is the right story:

• The story takes place about on Earth, but about 50,000,000 years after the present day and both the victim of the plot and the investigating officer find themselves in severe physical danger from the unfamiliar fauna (exploding scavenger beetles and pack-hunting dogoids).
• The story takes place (long) after a technological singularity in which most of humanity disappeared from the Earth. The characters of the story represent the last survivors on the human race embodied and present in human form. Whether there are other survivors is not known.
• The use of the word "bobble" for the time-freezing force fields.
• The characters divide into a few who have access to technology from shortly before the singularity (high techs) and many who do not (low tech). Many of the low techs were criminally embobbled in their original era and arrived with no survival tools of their own. Others were the criminals who sentence was to be bobbled forward to shortly after the emergence of their victim. A sub-plot revolves around the measured used to keep victims from attacking perpetrators.
• The victim of the murder—afraid of ubiquitous, but unobtrusive high-tech surveillance—befriended some barely subs-sapient humanoids and used them to help get her message out.
• The perpetrator of the plot was sentenced to live out his (high-tech supported) lifespan alone while the rest of the colony bobbled forward.

The book was nominated for the Hugo and the Nebula and won the Prometheus.

An episode like this is one of the main plot points of Vernor Vinge's 1986 novel Marooned in Realtime which takes place in the same universe as The Peace war and "The Ungoverned", though rather a lot later than either. It also shares one character from each of the earlier works.

The book was originally serialized in Analog and also appeared in the omnibus collection Across Realtime.

The novel is basically a murder mystery in which the stranding of the lone human is the means by which the murder was committed. While by no means as old as you suggest the style of the book does put me a bit in mind of an earlier era of science fiction writing.

Things you might recall if this is the right story:

• The story takes place about on Earth, but about 50,000,000 years after the present day and both the victim of the plot and the investigating officer find themselves in severe physical danger from the unfamiliar fauna (exploding scavenger beetles and pack-hunting dogoids).
• The story takes place (long) after a technological singularity in which most of humanity disappeared from the Earth. The characters of the story represent the last survivors on the human race embodied and present in human form. Whether there are other survivors is not known.
• The use of the word "bobble" for the time-freezing force fields.
• The characters divide into a few who have access to technology from shortly before the singularity (high techs) and many who do not (low tech). Many of the low techs were criminally embobbled in their original era and arrived with no survival tools of their own. Others were the criminals who sentence was to be bobbled forward to shortly after the emergence of their victim. A sub-plot revolves around the measures used to keep victims from attacking perpetrators.
• The victim of the murder—afraid of ubiquitous, but unobtrusive high-tech surveillance—befriended some barely subs-sapient humanoids and used them to help get her message out.
• The perpetrator of the plot was sentenced to live out his (high-tech supported) lifespan alone while the rest of the colony bobbled forward.

The book was nominated for the Hugo and the Nebula and won the Prometheus.

An episode like this is one of the main plot points of Vernor Vinge's 1986 novel Marooned in Realtime which takes place in the same universe as The Peace war and "The Ungoverned", though rather a lot later than. It also shares on character from each of the earlier works.

The book was originally serialized in Analog and also appeared in the omnibus collection Across Realtime.

The novel is basically a murder mystery in which the stranding of the lone human is the means by which the murder was committed. While by no means as old as you suggest the style of the book does put me a bit in mind of an earlier era of science fiction writing.

Things you might recall if this is the right story:

• The story takes place about on Earth, but about 50,000,000 years after the present day and both the victim of the plot and the investigating officer find themselves in severe physical danger from the unfamiliar fauna (exploding scavanger beetles and pack-hunting dogoids).
• The story takes place (long) after a technological singularity in which most of humanity disappeared from the Earth. The characters of the story represent the last survivors on the human race embodied and present in human form. Whether there are other survivors is not known.
• The use of the word "bobble" for the time-freezing force fields.
• The characters divide into a few who have access to technology from shortly before the singularity (high techs) and many who do not (low tech). Many of the low techs were criminally embobbled in their original era and arrived with no survival tools of their own.
• The victim of the murder—afraid of ubiquitous, but unobtrusive high-tech surveillance—befriended some barely subs-sapient humanoids and used them to help get her message out.
• The perpetrator of the plot was sentenced to live out his (high-tech supported) lifespan alone while the rest of the colony bobbled forward.

The book was nominated for the Hugo and the Nebula and won the Prometheus.

An episode like this is one of the main plot points of Vernor Vinge's 1986 novel Marooned in Realtime which takes place in the same universe as The Peace war and "The Ungoverned", though rather a lot later than either. It also shares on character from each of the earlier works.

The book was originally serialized in Analog and also appeared in the omnibus collection Across Realtime.

The novel is basically a murder mystery in which the stranding of the lone human is the means by which the murder was committed. While by no means as old as you suggest the style of the book does put me a bit in mind of an earlier era of science fiction writing.

Things you might recall if this is the right story:

• The story takes place about on Earth, but about 50,000,000 years after the present day and both the victim of the plot and the investigating officer find themselves in severe physical danger from the unfamiliar fauna (exploding scavenger beetles and pack-hunting dogoids).
• The story takes place (long) after a technological singularity in which most of humanity disappeared from the Earth. The characters of the story represent the last survivors on the human race embodied and present in human form. Whether there are other survivors is not known.
• The use of the word "bobble" for the time-freezing force fields.
• The characters divide into a few who have access to technology from shortly before the singularity (high techs) and many who do not (low tech). Many of the low techs were criminally embobbled in their original era and arrived with no survival tools of their own. Others were the criminals who sentence was to be bobbled forward to shortly after the emergence of their victim. A sub-plot revolves around the measured used to keep victims from attacking perpetrators.
• The victim of the murder—afraid of ubiquitous, but unobtrusive high-tech surveillance—befriended some barely subs-sapient humanoids and used them to help get her message out.
• The perpetrator of the plot was sentenced to live out his (high-tech supported) lifespan alone while the rest of the colony bobbled forward.

The book was nominated for the Hugo and the Nebula and won the Prometheus.