Timeline of Events in Vinge's Across Realtime Novels

The following is a timeline of events in Vernor Vinge's "Across Realtime" series of novels and stories - specifically, The Peace War (1984), Marooned in Realtime (1986), and the short story "The Ungoverned" (1985), which can be found in The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge (2002).  Obviously, this timeline contains spoilers, and one should probably not read through it without at least having read Marooned in Realtime.

1992-93: Livermore Energy Labs developer Paul Hoehler discovers containment field ("bobble")

1997: Peace Authority (PA) seizes power after instigating limited nuclear war between U.S. and Soviet Union

1997-2010: War viruses and genetic plagues kill 5.5 billion worldwide

2015: Huachuca war plague, released by surviving remnant of U.S. government, kills 100 million of remaining 500 million humans

2020s: PA discontinues radar watch for illegal aerospace craft

2038: Middle California Tinkers agree to hide their best new electronics gear to avoid PA detection

2040s: PA embobbles Yakima after discovering DNA recombination analyzer

2047-48: Bobble War; fall of Peace Authority

2050s: Longevity breakthrough

2080s: Water War between New Mexico and Aztlan (over Colorado River, presumably)

2090s: Disgovernance of Aztlan; New Mexicans invade Kansas

2097: Republic of NM renounces tax authority and effectively disgoverns

2100: W.W. Brierson shanghaied; family bobbles gifts in 2140 and 2180

2101: Livermore returns to realtime

2150s: Della Lu and Miguel Rosas explore outer Solar System

2160: "Philippe Genet" becomes construction contractor

2190s: Miguel Rosas dies on Dark Companion expedition

2195: Monica Raines enters stasis

2197: Mudge leaves systems programming and becomes chiliast

2200: Jason Mudge and Juan Chanson enter stasis

2201: Korolevs and Genet enter stasis

2202: Della Lu departs for Gatewood's Star (Lalande 21185)

2207: Tunc Blumenthal's company opens antimatter distillery in southern solar hemisphere, begins plans to turn Dark Companion into Tipler Cylinder*

2209: Blumenthal attends marketing conference on Moon; can't understand discussions but thinks Stellation, Inc. has lost interest in Dark Companion project

2210: Tunc Blumenthal enters stasis, crashes into sun

2230: Juan Chanson claims Norcross graffiti were composed this year

2295: Mudge out of stasis; notes he is past Singularity

2465: Rohan and Dilip Dasgupta leave stasis

3400: Lu returns from Gatewood's Star; finds evidence of nuclear war

10,000: Korolevs move Dasguptas and others to Canada

32,000: W.W. Sanchez and Korolevs rescue T. Blumenthal

62,000: Blumenthal re-enters realtime

MY 20: Grave robbers wiped out by Korolevs and others

MY 30: W.W. Sanchez founds dropout community

MY 49.5: Dragon birds evolve

MY 50: Rescue of Peace Authority bobble in Cambodia.  Della Lu returns from interstellar expedition

MY 50 + 2 years: Marta Korolev reaches Peacer bobble

MY 50 + 40 years: Marta Korolev dies

MY 50.050: Peacers leave stasis and found own town.  Brierson investigation.  Peacer-NM-High tech war.

MY 50.060: Juan Chanson dies; Earth in ice age

MY 50.1: Della Lu returns after defeating Gerrault


(Links added 21 Aug. 2015.)


* A Tipler Cylinder is a very long, rapidly-rotating tube which transects the space-time geodesics ("light cones") of one or more stars. The cylinder's mass and velocity bend those geodesics into timelike curves, allowing a traveler to move backwards in time along them.