A world out of time
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. But Corbell picked his time and made his own move. Once he was outbound, where the Society that ruled Earth could not reach him, he headed his starship toward the galactic core, where the unimaginable energies of the Universe wrenched the fabric of time and space and promised final escape from his captors. Then he returned to an Earth eons older than the one he\'d left...a planet that had had 3,000,000 years to develop perils he had never dreamed of -- perils that became nightmares that he had to escape...somehow!.
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- I recommend Larry Niven's "World out of Time" in which the (cryogenically preserved) protagonist's memories are implanted in a new body by a future government. Great book.
- Larry Niven's "A World Out of Time" had this as a plot device, when he wrote it in the 70s. I enjoyed the book a lot, a lot of hard-sci-fi readers did not.
- For another take on life-after-upload, try Neal Stephenson's "Fall; or, Dodge in Hell".
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Also, Niven's "A World out of Time" [1], where the reanimated ('corpsicles') are used for menial / dangerous tasks.
- Perhaps radiating fins built of an as-yet unknown material that could extend into space.
To read an entertaining work of fiction that deals with these issues I suggest Larry Niven’s Known Space series, specifically as regards the Puppeteer planet, and his World Out of Time book with extreme engineering solutions to climate changes.
- Larry Niven has a few e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_World_Out_of_Time but I agree that realistic interstellar travel is more often found in older fiction, as we did not yet know how hard it was. What would be realistic now?
- Also, A World Out of Time, by Larry Niven - where a ramjet pilot returns to earth, only to find it ruined and way too hot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_World_Out_of_Time
