A review by jonathan_von
The Peace War by Vernor Vinge

2.0

There are some very interesting ideas extrapolating a Cold War mentality to a distant future using time, withholding technology and enforceable isolation as a weapon. But the result is shockingly boring and tedious. I lost track of the number of times a female character was described as intelligent despite being a woman. And the racial politics, hoo boy. I’m pretty sure this was poorly aged when it was written. I’ll keep the faith with Vinge but this was a struggle.