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A World Out of Time

57.1% complete
1976
1988
1 time
See 9
1 - Rammer
2 - Don Juan
3 - A House Divided
4 - The Norn
5 - Stealing Youth
6 - The Changelings
7 - The Dictators
8 - Dial at Random
9 - Peerssa for the State
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 The State Series*
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The State Series*   See series as if on a bookshelf
A series of science fiction books by Larry Niven.  These do not appear to take place in Known Space.

1) A World Out of Time
2) The Integral Trees
3) The Smoke Ring
Copyright © 1976 by Larry Niven
To Owen Lock and Judy-Lynn del Rey, who edited the manuscript of this book and made me do some necessary rewriting: Where the hell were you when Ringworld was published

To anyone who owns a first a first edition of Ringworld: Hang on to that. It's the only version in which the Earth rotates in the wrong direction (Chapter 1).
Once there was a dead man.
May contain spoilers
Maybe the pheromone perfume could be used judiciously, in much smaller quantities....
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Added: 29-Dec-2002
Last Updated: 09-Aug-2015

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 12-Jan-1982
Del Rey
Mass Market Paperback
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Date Issued:
12-Jan-1982
Format:
Mass Market Paperback
Cover Price:
$2.50
Pages*:
246
Read:
Once
Cover Link(s):
Internal ID:
1665
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-345-30580-9
ISBN-13:
978-0345305800
Printing:
5
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Rick Sternbach  - Cover Artist
Murray Tinkelman - Illustrator
WHEN HE CAME BACK
FROM THE DEAD...
HE WISHED HE HADN'T


Jaybee Corbell awoke after more than 200 years as a corpsicle -- in someone else's body, and under sentence of instant annihilation if he made a wrong move while they were training him for a one-way mission to the stars.

But Corbell picked his time and made his own move. Once he was outbound, where the Society that ruled Earth could not reach him, he headed his starship toward the galactic core, where the unimaginable energies of the Universe wrenched the fabric of time and space and promised final escape from his captors.

Then he returned to an Earth eons older than the one he'd left... a planet that had had 3,000,000 years to develop perils he had never dreamed of - perils that became nightmares that he had to escape... somehow!

"TERRIFIC FUN!"
- Kirkus Reviews

A SCIENCE FICTION BOOK CLUB SELECTION
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Picked this up used and badly damaged but I was really into Larry Niven at the time...

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Author(s)

Larry Niven  
Birth: 30 Apr 1938 Los Angeles, California, USA
Notes:
Larry Niven is the pen name of Laurence van Cott Niven.  He was born in 1938 in California.  He received a Bachelor's of Science in mathematics from Washburn University in Kansas.  His first publication was "The Coldest Place" for If in 1964.  He has since written many books including those in his Tales of Known Space series which also began in "The Coldest Place".
From Beowulf's Children:

Born April 30, 1938 in Los Angeles, California. Attended California Institute of Technology; flunked out after discovering a book store jammed with used science fiction magazines.  Graduated Washburn University, Kansas, June 1962: BA in Mathematics with a Minor in Psychology, and later received an honorary doctorate in Letters from Washburn. Interests: Science fiction conventions, role playing games, AAAS meetings and other gatherings of people at the cutting edges of science. Comics. Filk singing. Yoga and other approaches to longevity. Moving mankind into space by any means, but particularly by making space endeavors attractive to commercial interests. Several times we’ve hosted The Citizens Advisory Council for a National Space Policy. I grew up with dogs. I live with a cat, and borrow dogs to hike with. I have passing acquaintance with raccoons and ferrets. Associating with nonhumans has certainly gained me insight into alien intelligences.

Awards

1977Locus MagazineBest SF Novel Nominee
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