# name of a book

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-of-a-book/76119>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 14, 2001, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-of-a-book/76119 "2001-08-14T00:25:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2001, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-of-a-book/76119/1 "2001-08-14T00:25:15Z")

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When I was a kid I joined the science fiction book club. In their monthly catalogue, there was an ad for a book about a man returning to earth billions of years in the future after a space travel accident. When he comes back, the earth is in orbit around Jupiter and the planet’s life-forms are totally unrecognizeably different.

The blurb intrigued me, but I never ordered it. And now, many many years later, I do not remember the name of the book.

Does the plot sound familiar to anyone? Anyone got any info on the book?

-Kris

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**Author:** ![Guy\_Propski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5e9695/32.png) [@Guy\_Propski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Propski)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2001, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-of-a-book/76119/2 "2001-08-14T00:35:40Z")

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Piece of cake. It was “A World Out of Time” by Larry Niven. By coincidence, I bought that very book from the SFBC. Recommended.