World Out of Time
ISBN:
0354041436
Publish date: 1977
Publisher: MacDonal and Jane's
Pages no: 243
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Adventure,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Science Fiction,
Space,
Space Opera,
Time Travel,
Dystopia,
Apocalyptic,
Post Apocalyptic,
Hard Science Fiction
Series: The State (#1)
There are a number of science-fiction books around where the author attempts to chart the future history, in a speculative manner of course, of humanity. Isaac Asimov does that in his Foundation universe (which begins with the Robot stories and ends with Foundation and Earth) and Larry Niven does th...
(Re-read this as part of summer-long nostalgia trip of Larry Niven's Known Space books. Although [b:A World Out of Time|64725|A World Out of Time (The State, #1)|Larry Niven|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1348613073s/64725.jpg|1634535], takes place in a different fictional universe, I h...
Not one of Niven's best novels, but still quite good. A cryogenically frozen man awakens in the far future with his mind transplanted into a new body and finds a world inhabited by children because the aging process has been stopped.
A book I've read a few times before. Kind of a guilty pleasure.
First he flies around a huge black hole and narrowly escapes being sucked into it. Later on in the book, they stick a giant tube into Uranus, turning it into some kind of planet-sized rocket, and use it to rearrange the Solar System's architecture.I know so little about Freudian psychology that I im...
11 years ago
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