An episode like this is one of the main plot points of [Vernor Vinge][1]'s *[Marooned in Realtime][2]* which takes place in the same universe as *The Peace war* and "The Ungoverened", though rather a lot later than. It also shares on character from each of the earlier works.

The novel is basically a murder mystery in which the stranding of the lone human is the means by which the murder was committed.

Things you might recall if this is the right story:

* The story takes place about on Earth, but about 50,000 years after the present day and both the victim of the plot and the investigating officer find them selves in severe physical danger from the unfamiliar fauna.
* The time 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. If there are other survivors is not known.
* The use of the word "bobble" for the time-freezing force fields.
* The character divide into a few who have access to technologic from shortly before the singulatiry (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 befriended some barely subs-sapient humaniods 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.

  [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernor_Vinge
  [2]: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1567