false 6082540 1 On March 16, 1912, British polar explorer Titus Oates commits suicide by walking out of his tent into an Antarctic blizzard, to save Robert Falcon Scott and the other members of the English exploration team. His body is never found - because he was snatched away into the year 2045 by scientists experimenting with a new faster-than-light drive. Arriving in the future, Oates stubbornly sticks to his old explorer job and sets off on an intergalactic adventure that leads to both knowledge and self-knowledge. The first section of this novel appeared as a novella in ANALOG Science Fiction magazine (April 2001) under the title "May Be Some Time." It was a finalist for both the Nebula and the Hugo awards. 6259262 Revise the World total:3|3:2|2:1| 3 8 7 5 3 0 false false Sun Jan 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 08 22:17:19 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 16:05:49 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed May 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 18 00:39:33 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 01:13:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Apr 29 07:07:53 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 01:12:27 -0700 2009 Revise the World continually reminded me of a Golden-Age-SciFi space opera, in the vein of Doc Smith and his contemporaries. It has the same great sense of fun, and the same lack of attention to the mundane detail...more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Aug 01 08:48:18 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 08:48:18 -0700 2009 http://www.bookviewcafe.com/option,com_d...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Mar 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Apr 04 22:55:37 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 04 22:56:07 -0700 2009 http://community.livejournal.com/genrere...]]> 0 0 false false Sun Aug 09 15:11:13 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 09 15:11:23 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Mar 02 12:00:36 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 02 12:01:06 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6082540