"After 200 years in cryosleep, Jaybee Corbell awakens to find that his mind has been downloaded to another body and he's in servitude to a harsh future State. Following his escape via a spaceship, he traverses such vast distances--with accompanying time dilations--that he returns to Earth 3 million years later to discover a world wholly alien to the one he'd left"--Page 4 of cover.
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"After 200 years in cryosleep, Jaybee Corbell awakens to find that his mind has been downloaded to another body and he's in servitude to a harsh future State. Following his escape via a spaceship, he traverses such vast distances--with accompanying time dilations--that he returns to Earth 3 million years later to discover a world wholly alien to the one he'd left"--Page 4 of cover.
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The architecture of this story is flawless, its entertainment value, undeniable. Niven sets forth characters you can identify with, and lets the mysteries inherent in a future needing to be explored sneak up behind you with an ACME mallet. Just when all seems lost, he spins you around and keeps you going, straight into a world that is at once familiar and completely alien. Not only was the book enjoyable the first time around, but after years and years, the story is still a great read, and somehow always finds its way into my top 10 list. If you can't read 'A World Out of Time' again and again, you've never read it.
