Science Fiction - Help me reconnect to this book
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1DLoBrown
I read a book back in 2003 and I really want to find it again. I belive it started with a man in a transport ship going through space. His mind had been placed in an asexual body. The rest of the trasport passengers were also asexual, and they were having a strange orgy. I believe the man ended up on a strange planet where children ruled. Warrior Children? Someone has already suggested "Old Man's War" but this wasn't published until 2005 (2 years after I read the book I want to find). The plot sounded similar to Old Man's War.
2DemetriosX
Nothing you describe sounds at all like Old Man's War to me. At first, I thought of Flight of the Dragonfly (or its expansion Rocheworld) by Robert L. Forward, but they don't wind up on a planet ruled by children. Warrior children ruling a planet makes me think maybe something by Orson Scott Card, but I'm not familiar enough with his stuff to say one way or another.
3DLoBrown
Well it is neither of those suggested. Don't know if it was by Card. I think I remember the main character talking about Memory-DNA or RNA or MRNA, something about how his mind was placed into a new body.
4DLoBrown
Someone has suggested A World Out of Time by Larry Niven. I'm really thinking this may be the winner. Anyone read this? Does it sound like my description? Were the other corpsicles having orgies in the State's Testing area?
5mart1n
>4 DLoBrown: Not really. The protagonist does end up where (sort of) children rule, but the asexuality doesn't fit, and his ship doesn't have any passengers. Might you be conflating more than one work?
6pjfarm
2) The Card books you're thinking of are probably the various books and stories set in the Worthing universe. They are not the book described in the original post. Neither is the Ender universe with it's warrior children.
7DLoBrown
Yes, i could be conflating more than one. I however may have been thinking about the fact that the boys are frozen in a pre-puberty state instead of aseuality. I also may have thought he was interacting with passengers, when he was in fact interacting with other corpsicles. Did he interact with others before he left in the ship?
8mart1n
>7 DLoBrown: He starts as a corpsicle, but I don't remember interaction with any others. On the ship he only interacts with an onboard AI type thing.
