I ship the same day you pay for your item, whenever possible. Lerner) Fleet of Worlds (2007) Juggler of Worlds (2008) Destroyer of Worlds (2009). * Shipping Speed Most people are extremely amazed at how fast I get their item delivered to them. Guide to Larry Nivens Ringworld (1994, with Kevin Stein) The Ringworld Throne (1996) Ringworlds Children (2004) Worlds series (with Edward M.
Previous owner's "Library Of" stamp is on the front endpaper. But Corbell picked his time and made his own move. Dust cover is lightly discolored and shows shelf wear and scuffing. 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. Conceived and written with wit, technical sophistication, and striking imagination, A World Out of Time is prime Niven for a large and growing audience of fans.Ĭondition: Used. In trying to discover what has happened in his 3,000 millennial absence, Corbell meets a solitary, once-beautiful, ever-vindictive Norn named Mirelly-Lyra her cat-snake pets and other curious animal mutants and a colony of almost-immortal "Boys," survivors of a legendary war with the almost-immortal "Girls," a war in which one side controlled the heavens and the other the Earth. A World Out of Time tells of Jaybee Corbell's one-man (but not one-presence) odyssey into the future, from his awakening in the twenty-second century - and his conversion from frozen "corpsicle" to spaceship pilot for the State - through a galactic tour that shunts him three million years ahead, to a homecoming on a puzzling transformed, relocated Earth. with a story of remarkable astrophysical implications. In this brilliant new novel, one of the best and most popular of today's younger science-fiction authors takes an audacious leap into a stunning distant future.
0 kommentar(er)
