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Title: A World Out of Time by Larry Niven ISBN: 0-345-33696-8 Publisher: Del Rey Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.48 (27 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: My first Niven book...
Comment: AWOoT was the first Niven book I have ever read (at age 15). My family owns a convenience store/newsstand in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and in 1977 my father received a batch of SF books in consignation for the store's book section. He brought home three of them for me, 'The Space Machine' by C. Priest--a very enjoyable pastiche of H.G.Wells' 'The Time Machine' and 'War of the Worlds', another one so bad I do not remember even its title, and 'A World Out of Time'. At the beginning I was skeptic. The blurbs on the back cover sounded kind of 'New Wavish' and even freakish. Being a hardcore-SF fan weaned on A.C.Clarke and I.Asimov, I was militantly anti 'New-Wave' SF (the fashion in Argentinian SF publishing at the time) or 'unscientific'. I did not want to waste my time on another 'character' story or fantasy tale. I wanted at least planetary size action and ideas...Man, I got them in spades and of Galactic size!!! To say it blew me away it is too little to express the impact of this book on me. It was like an intellectual sledge-hammer crashing on my brain. Only J.Varley's 'The Persistence of Vision' collection had a similar effect on me--and only because I was ten years older and wiser at the time. I read and reread the books more times than I remember. It was also humongously popular with my HS friends--but I suspect more due to the then 'titillating' sex scenes than the gigantic space and time range of the plot, action and ideas. After that, Niven entered the Pantheon of 'hunt for' SF authors, so 'Ringworld' and "Tales of Known Space' (plus everything he has written alone or in collaboration) followed, increasing my awe and admiration for his work. But AWOoT is still my most beloved Niven's book.
Rating: 5
Summary:
Take time out for "A World Out of Time"
Comment: I had read darn near everything Niven's written, and finally got around to this novel.
I wish I'd read it sooner!
Lots of action, a sense of discovery around every corner, and with every turn of the page a new puzzle to solve within the plot of the story. Of course it also has the big big science that Niven is famous for. What a treat after his less than spectacular recent efforts. If I had one bad thing to say, it's that a small portion of the science no longer holds up to current theories--but that's a small price to pay for such fun!
If you're a sci-fi fan, and haven't yet read Niven, I highly recommend this book for your first read. Every bit as good as "Ringworld", with none of the overhead of that novel's "Known Space" universe to catch up on. If you're already a Niven fan, and haven't yet experienced this novel--read it now before you run out of time!
Rating: 5
Summary: Great time travelling scifi
Comment: One of the best books by Larry Niven. Some of his more rescent books I do not like, but this one is one of my favorites. Fun reading related to travelling far into the future, changing bodies, inmortality, wars between men and women, etc
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Title: Protector by Larry Niven ISBN: 0345353129 Publisher: Del Rey Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1992 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Three Books of Known Space by Larry Niven ISBN: 0345404483 Publisher: Del Rey Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Ringworld Engineers by Larry Niven ISBN: 0345334302 Publisher: Del Rey Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1990 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Footfall by Larry Niven ISBN: 0345323440 Publisher: Del Rey Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle ISBN: 0671741926 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1987 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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