![]() ![]() And he learned the true nature of the Ship and its mission between the stars. ![]() The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much: In 'Lost Legacy'. Then Hugh was captured by the muties and met their leader (or leaders), Joe-Jim, with two heads on one body. City in a Bottle: Orphans of the Sky is about a multi-generational space craft where the inhabitants lost the knowledge that they were on a ship (along with most other knowledge) after a failed mutiny, so the current generation thinks the whole universe is just the ship. Were they evil incarnate, or merely a divine check on the population, keeping humanity from expanding past the capacity of the Ship to support? Of course, there were the muties, grotesquely deformed parodies of humans, who lurked in the upper reaches of the Ship where gravity was weaker. Indeed, how could the Ship move, since its miles and miles of metal corridors were all there was of creation? Science knew that the Ship was all the Universe, and as long as the sacred Convertor was fed, the lights would continue to glow and the air would flow, and the Creator's Plan would be fulfilled. Both were slightly modified by the author and published together as Orphans of the Sky in 1963. Sequel novella 'Common Sense' was published in ASF in October of the same year. ![]() But he also understood this was actually allegory for a voyage to spiritual perfection. Heinlein novella 'Universe' was published in the May 1941 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. Hugh had been taught that, according to the ancient sacred writings, the Ship was on a voyage to faraway Centaurus. A fix-up consisting of the novelette Universe (1941) and the novella Common Sense (1941). ![]()
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