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In the 24th century, companies offer deep-space cruises on luxury ships, but no one takes a deep-space cruise for pleasure. Because the ships travel at nearly the speed of light, 20 years pass on Earth during a standard cruise, while the passengers age only two years. Most passengers are sufferers of degenerative diseases who hope that, during those extra Earth years, medical science will catch up with their maladies. Many of these passengers are elderly; nearly all are fantastically rich. And then there's Jeremiah Brown.31 years old and in the pink of health, Jeremiah is "rich" only through his wealthy uncle, whose fortune he will inherit. In fact, Jeremiah is on the cruise precisely to receive this fortune on an accelerated timeline, and has bought a ticket "on expectation" of said inheritance.But as the ship nears Earth, Jeremiah learns that his uncle has cut him out of the will, instead leaving every cent to a home for maltreated ferrets.Unable to honor the financial arrangement of his ticket, Jeremiah must work for the final ten days of the cruise. As ten days will be a full week and three days longer than Jeremiah has ever worked, even an ordinary job would be sure to prove challenging. But this will be no ordinary job...World Enough (And Time) is a sci-fi comedy of manners and errors.If you enjoy the work of Douglas Adams—or have always longed to read something inspired by P.G. Wodehouse or Kingsley Amis but set on, you know, a spaceship zipping through the void at an appreciable fraction of the speed of light—you should check it out.