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Summary: Great time travelling scifi
Review: One of the best books by Larry Niven. Some of his more rescent books I do not like, but this one is one of my favorites. Fun reading related to travelling far into the future, changing bodies, inmortality, wars between men and women, etc
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Summary: Great time travelling scifi
Review: One of the best books by Larry Niven. Some of his more rescent books I do not like, but this one is one of my favorites. Fun reading related to travelling far into the future, changing bodies, inmortality, wars between men and women, etc
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Summary: There should be a sequel, but the book was great
Review: The story is an excellent one as "Corbell for Himself" travels to the Galactic core and finds, upon his return, nothing of what he left behind. One of Nivens best and one of my favorites
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Summary: A story that takes 3 million years and 246 pages to tell
Review: This is an excellent novel. It does everything you would expect of a novel. It entertains; it surprises and motivates thought. This book covers 3 million years of time through the viewpoint of one personality. I say personality rather then person, as it is not necessarily the same thing for the purposes of this novel. The author does an excellent job of not getting bogged down in the vast areas of change that happen in 3 million years and only shows us things that are relevant and aid the telling of the story rather then bog it down.Basically, the story is that of humanity and its cycles of evolution. All of this is told through one mans viewpoint and gives us a 1970's perspective on the rest of future humanity. A very well told story that is told succinctly and with the correct level of pithiness. A definite recommendation on my part. The only reason that I give this book four stars instead of five is because although it has aged well over 25 years I do not believe the story survives completely independent of the science in this case and that has aged less well. A very entertaining read.
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Summary: Niven's best
Review: This is Larry Niven's best work. And that, my friends, is saying a great deal.
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Summary: Not one of Niven's Best
Review: This is not one of Larry Niven's better efforts. A World Out of Time is written almost like a string of short stories clumped together. It appears that Niven took the short story 'Rammer' and tried to make a novel length work out of it. The result is not very pleasing. If you are a hardcore Niven fan the novel is worth reading, I suppose. But for others, you're not missing much if you skip it.
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Summary: Not one of Niven's Best
Review: This is not one of Larry Niven's better efforts. A World Out of Time is written almost like a string of short stories clumped together. It appears that Niven took the short story 'Rammer' and tried to make a novel length work out of it. The result is not very pleasing. If you are a hardcore Niven fan the novel is worth reading, I suppose. But for others, you're not missing much if you skip it.
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Summary: This time travel fantasy hits the spot
Review: This time travel fantasy hits the spot. James Corbell gets frozen in the 1970's hoping that in the future a cure will be found. His brain is reconstituted using RNA shots and is put in another body in the distant future. Without even being told what has happened in the last x number of years he is sent off in a seeder ramship to drop probes off on far away planets.
Then he realizes he is so far away that no one could catch him, so he starts heading for the galactic core. There, millions of stars a tightly packed together. Everything was going according to plan until Corbell accidentally loaded some idiot as the ship's personality. After arguing with his computer for a few years he decides to take a chance and try to use a black hole to get back to Earth. Here is where it gets really weird.
The black hole works and Einstein's theory of relativity turns out to be correct. The spaceship was going so fast that it bent space-time itself and ended up millions of years in the future. The Earth is in orbit around Jupiter. Uranus is missing. The sun is a red giant. Immortality has been discovered.
When Corbell lands on Earth he meets this creepy old woman that tells him about the girls and the boys. There is hardly anyone on Earth and there is a way to become immortal when you are young. There is also a way to be immortal for old people, but this lady doesn't know what it is. Corbell stumbles upon this in the end of this exciting story. Don't miss this!
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Summary: Truly superb.
Review: This was the first Niven work I had ever read, and then re-read. Wow. Absolutely breath-taking in its scope, prodigious in its use of hard sci-fi, you virtually feel like the protagonist Jaybee Corbell. Niven's descriptions of the far-future world are astounding, and you genuinely feel for (and root for) Corbell all the way. No previous knowledge of other Niven works is required to fully enjoy this (like Ringworld). If you only ever read one Niven novel, make it this one.
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Summary: Wow
Review: What a great book. This was one of the first sci-fi books I ever read, having borrowed it out of my older brother's bookshelf, and I was blown away. I've read it several times and each time I was amazed at how easily it read and how quickly I buzzed throught it. You won't want to put it down!
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