# What was this time travel sci fi book?

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**Post date:** [September 3, 2012, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-time-travel-sci-fi-book/633503/1 "2012-09-03T01:32:21Z")

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Can anyone help me remember the name of this sci fi story?

From what I remember, a prisoner was selected to pilot a cargo ship at extreme distances and speeds. So much so, that relativistic time dialation and such occur. When he arrives, it will be 10,000 years in the future. I remember an AI that kept him company. Some old lady that is searching for eternal life and ends up finding it by using transporters, also a world divided between boys and girls? Ring any bells?

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**Post date:** [September 3, 2012, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-time-travel-sci-fi-book/633503/2 "2012-09-03T01:40:52Z")

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“A World Out of Time” by Larry Niven

> **[A World Out of Time](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_World_Out_of_Time)**
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> A World Out of Time is a science fiction novel by Larry Niven and published in 1976. It is set outside the Known Space universe of many of Niven's stories, but is otherwise fairly representative of his 1970s hard science fiction novels. The main part of the novel was originally serialized in Galaxy magazine as "Children of the State"; another part was originally published as the short story "Rammer". A World Out of Time placed fifth in the annual Locus Poll in 1977.
> Jerome Branch Corbell has i...

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**Post date:** [September 3, 2012, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-time-travel-sci-fi-book/633503/3 "2012-09-03T03:26:23Z")

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It was a novelization of the short story _[Rammer](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/452990.Rammer)_.