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A World Out of Time
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A World Out of Time is a science fiction novel by Larry Niven, first published in 1976. Parts of it had previously appeared in magazines as the short story "Rammer" and the serial "The Children of the State".The protagonist, Jerome Branch Corbell, is cryogenically frozen in the 1970s in hope that the future will produce a cure for his cancer. He is revived in a future where the entire world is run by a totalitarian state, and learns that "corpsicles" like himself are considered to have no rights and must work for the State to justify their continued existence. Corbell is assigned the task of piloting a Ram Scoop starship to find potentially habitable worlds and seed them with Terraforming packages. He rebels, taking the ship on a long journey of exploration that lasts many decades for him and, due to Time Dilation, three million years back on Earth; he returns to find Earth once again, and even more dramatically, changed.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); }) | |
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Alien Sky: When Corbell returns after his voyage of exploration, he finds an Earth that has been moved to orbit Jupiter, because a planet was dropped into the Sun during an interstellar war, making Earth's former orbit uninhabitably hot. | |
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Agony Beam: Mirelly-Lyra Zeelashisthar's silver cane, which can inflict crippling emotional pain. It was designed by a world-conquering State as a conditioning tool for recalcitrant slaves. A highly effective one, too; Corbell is so traumatized by the experience that just looking at Mirelly terrifies him. | |
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Afraid of Needles: Corbell died of cancer before the book begins (he got better). He reflects on how that experience cured him of any fear of needles. | |
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