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A World Out of Time

A World Out of Time

Jaybee Corbell travels three million years into the future to a homecoming on an earth in a transformed, relocated solar system


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“Too much imagination and I’ll scare myself to death. Too little and I’ll get myself killed.”

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Source: A World Out of Time (1976), Chapter 4 The Norn, Section 1 (p. 95)

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“Suddenly Corbell missed Mirabelle terribly. He mourned her, not because she was dead, but because she was gone.”

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Source: A World Out of Time (1976), Chapter 5 Stealing Youth, Section 3 (p. 126)

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“He felt good. At worst he had found a brand-new way to die.”

Larry Niven book A World Out of Time

Source: A World Out of Time (1976), Chapter 2 Don Juan, Section 4 (p. 54)

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“You’re insane. Imagine my amazement.”

Larry Niven book A World Out of Time

Source: A World Out of Time (1976), Chapter 2 Don Juan, Section 3 (p. 52)

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“He's a computer. Perfect memory, rigid logic, no judgment. I forgot. I talked to him like a human being, and now—”

Larry Niven book A World Out of Time

Source: A World Out of Time (1976), Chapter 2 Don Juan, Section 4 (p. 59)

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