Future History 5. Orphans of the Sky

✍ Heinlein, Robert A 📂 Fiction 📅 1963 🏛 Stealth Press 🌐 English ⚖ 87 KB 👁 1 views

The Robert H. Heinlein novella "Universe" was published in the May 1941 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. Sequel novella "Common Sense" was published in ASF in October of the same year. Both were slightly modified by the author and published together as Orphans of the Sky in 1963. This science

Orphans of the Sky

✍ Robert A. Heinlein 📂 Fiction 📅 2010 🌐 UND ⚖ 86 KB 👁 2 views

Orphans of the Sky

✍ Robert A. Heinlein 📂 Fiction 📅 1941;1996 🏛 Baen 🌐 English ⚖ 116 KB 👁 2 views

A fix-up consisting of the novelette "Universe" (1941) and the novella "Common Sense" (1941). First published in 1963. Hugh had been taught that, according to the ancient sacred writings, the Ship was on a voyage to faraway Centaurus. But he also understood this was actually allegory for a voyage t

Orphans of the Sky

✍ Robert A Heinlein 📂 Fiction 📅 2010 🏛 Berkley Books 🌐 English ⚖ 102 KB 👁 2 views

EDITORIAL REVIEW: The Jordan Foundation sponsored the Proxima Centauri Expedition in 2119, in attempt to reach the nearer stars of the galaxy. But that was far in the mythic past. The original purpose of the Ship's epic voyage has long been forgotten, and gor generations the ginat spaceship, lost be

Orphans of the Sky

✍ Robert A. Heinlein 📂 Fiction 📅 2010 🌐 English ⚖ 83 KB 👁 2 views

Orphans of the Sky

✍ Robert A Heinlein 📂 Fiction 📅 2010 🏛 Berkley Books 🌐 UND ⚖ 87 KB 👁 2 views

EDITORIAL REVIEW: The Jordan Foundation sponsored the Proxima Centauri Expedition in 2119, in attempt to reach the nearer stars of the galaxy. But that was far in the mythic past. The original purpose of the Ship's epic voyage has long been forgotten, and gor generations the ginat spaceship, lo