![]() ![]() ![]() Previous owner's "Library Of" stamp is on the front endpaper. Dust cover is lightly discolored and shows shelf wear and scuffing. Conceived and written with wit, technical sophistication, and striking imagination, A World Out of Time is prime Niven for a large and growing audience of fans.Ĭondition: Used. In trying to discover what has happened in his 3,000 millennial absence, Corbell meets a solitary, once-beautiful, ever-vindictive Norn named Mirelly-Lyra her cat-snake pets and other curious animal mutants and a colony of almost-immortal "Boys," survivors of a legendary war with the almost-immortal "Girls," a war in which one side controlled the heavens and the other the Earth. A World Out of Time tells of Jaybee Corbell's one-man (but not one-presence) odyssey into the future, from his awakening in the twenty-second century - and his conversion from frozen "corpsicle" to spaceship pilot for the State - through a galactic tour that shunts him three million years ahead, to a homecoming on a puzzling transformed, relocated Earth. with a story of remarkable astrophysical implications. ![]() In this brilliant new novel, one of the best and most popular of today's younger science-fiction authors takes an audacious leap into a stunning distant future. ![]()
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