A World out of Time

We are first introduced to Corbell, a man who, due to cancer, was frozen before he died so that he may be reawakened in the future. He was, but not into his body. His mind, once extracted from its previous owner, was injected through memory RNA into the head of a criminal!

After serious training, he is sent into space to change the atmospheres of Venus like planets. This all goes fine, until Corbell gets out of the reach of the State. When this happens, he rockets off into space, towards the Galactic Core, the mass of stars in the center o the Milky Way. During this journey, he is put in stasis, and his ship’s computer acts as the pilot. Unfortunately, when he connects a laser message back to Earth, his checker, Peerssa for the State, beams his own personality into Corbell’s computer.

When the ship pilots itself into the center of the galaxy, and sends Corbell 3 million years into the future, what will happen to the displaced Corbell and his endlessly annoying computer, Peerssa? Will he find Earth, and if he does, what will be left?

I'll tell you what. Not too much. Jupiter has expanded, the sun has turned into a red giant, and the Earth is almost entirely desert. The only humans that survive are ageless children that keep adults in a little isolated building. Since all of civilization is marooned on antarctica (which isn't really that small) there is an incredibly long night during the winter, during which people only survive because of oil pressed from seeds. Also, there are tiny elephants! And the Fountain of Youth! It's about time they found it; it's been 3 million 5 hundred years!

I really liked this book. It was great, and would be fantastic for those of you who like survival, sci-fi, and tiny elephants. Nobody doesn't like tiny elephants.