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In Larry Niven's A World Out of Time, Jerome Corbell is thawed from cryo sleep by the State, Earth's totalitarian government in the far future. The State transfers him into another body and ships him off to drop probes on distant planets. Corbell takes a detour instead, eventually returning to Earth in the even further future thanks to time dilation.
The space travel and the Earth parts read distinctly from each other. Like one story and a loose sequel rather than a single story. The space travel portion is passable. Corbell's interaction with Peerssa is amusing. The Earth part is more fun. Corbell explores an Earth wildly transformed. Post-apocalyptic but in a retrofuturistic way. This part of the story is full of mystery and anxiety and tension and the whole time I read it I was thinking it was what Ringworld should have been.
A World Out of Time was published in the 70s and it's apparent—sex is brought up several times: promiscuity in the State and orgies on the parched Earth. The book even closes out with sex because of course it does!
In Larry Niven's A World Out of Time, Jerome Corbell is thawed from cryo sleep by the State, Earth's totalitarian government in the far future. The State transfers him into another body and ships him off to drop probes on distant planets. Corbell takes a detour instead, eventually returning to Earth in the even further future thanks to time dilation.
The space travel and the Earth parts read distinctly from each other. Like one story and a loose sequel rather than a single story. The space travel portion is passable. Corbell's interaction with Peerssa is amusing. The Earth part is more fun. Corbell explores an Earth wildly transformed. Post-apocalyptic but in a retrofuturistic way. This part of the story is full of mystery and anxiety and tension and the whole time I read it I was thinking it was what Ringworld should have been.
A World Out of Time was published in the 70s and it's apparent—sex is brought up several times: promiscuity in the State and orgies on the parched Earth. The book even closes out with sex because of course it does!