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The Peace War by Vernor Vinge

By Marc | Published: April 1, 2010
In a post apocalyptic future, a British laboratory invents a way to generate impenetrable fields called Bobbles around people, objects, or even entire cities. The inventors use it to enforce a new regime called the Peace Authority.
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The Rocketeer (1991)

By Marc | Published: March 8, 2010
The Rocketeer wants to be a violent action film, full of vicious 40's style mobsters and nefarious, spying Nazis, but it can't pull it off... not because it doesn't have the budget (it does), not because it doesn't have the story for it (it does), but because the movie was produced by Disney.
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Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld

By Marc | Published: October 21, 2009
The teenage son of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand is thrust into adventure after the assassination of his powerful parents, in a steampunk alternative history of World War I fought between the Clankers (use machines) and the Darwinists (use engineered creatures).
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