Help me find/remember this book!

quad_red

Hi folks,

This has been wrecking my head for a while. I can remembers snippets of the plot of sci fi book I read at least ten years ago but I can't remember or find the title by searching online.

Basically, what I remember is there was an astronaut. He was basically taken millions of years into the future (his personality being extracted and placed into a construct). Those who found him admired his ability to maintain an identity after such a long period and coopted him into some sort of plan. I seem to remember it may have involved the heat death of the universe. And at the 'end' of time, as the universe fumbled towards heat death, the only organisms remaining were vast solar system sized entities that absorbed the last dying light.

Sorry if that's mumbo jumbo. That jog anyone's memory?

Cheers,
Quad

wyrn

I think I downloaded this recently, I think it was free. I'll check my kindle when I get home.

wyrn

Well the book I was think of is The Forever War by Joe Haldeman. I'm not sure if that's the one you are thinking of. Probably not. I haven't read it yet (yet another book sitting on my Kindle to-read list) so I don't know if it matches up with what you are thinking of.

The only other book I could guess is The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy by Stanisław Lem. I know you said construct but I thought maybe with the film The Congress (which is slightly based on the above), I thought that might have triggered you wanting to find out the name of the book.

I also found these other books on my goodreads to read list, although I don't think this or this is what you are after.

I hope you find it!

quad_red

wyrn wrote: »

Well the book I was think of is The Forever War by Joe Haldeman. I'm not sure if that's the one you are thinking of. Probably not. I haven't read it yet (yet another book sitting on my Kindle to-read list) so I don't know if it matches up with what you are thinking of.

The only other book I could guess is The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy by Stanisław Lem. I know you said construct but I thought maybe with the film The Congress (which is slightly based on the above), I thought that might have triggered you wanting to find out the name of the book.

I also found these other books on my goodreads to read list, although I don't think this or this is what you are after.

I hope you find it!

Thanks Wyn. It's neither of them. But appreciate the effort

Wabbit Ears

I was also leaning towards the foreverr war, Never did finish the last section..

Manach

Count to a Trillion series? : http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10999916-count-to-a-trillion

quad_red

Nope. But thanks for the suggestion!

Wabbit Ears

Wabbit Ears wrote: »

I was also leaning towards the foreverr war, Never did finish the last section..

A good read, bit dated now but still worth a go IMO

Thargor

Sounds like the overarching storyline to Stephen Baxters Xeelee Sequence:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeelee_Sequence

Micheal Poole being the astronaut, he appears in most of the books in one form or another and observes life for billions of years until the heat death of the universe.

quad_red

Agggh! That's it. Thank you!

Thargor wrote: »

Sounds like the overarching storyline to Stephen Baxters Xeelee Sequence:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeelee_Sequence

Micheal Poole being the astronaut, he appears in most of the books in one form or another and observes life for billions of years until the heat death of the universe.