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Orphans of the sky / Robert A. Heinlein.
LIBRA - Adams Collection SciFi Heinlein, R. A.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heinlein, Robert A. (Robert Anson), 1907-1988.
- Series:
- Berkeley medallion book.
- A Berkeley medallion book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Interplanetary voyages--Fiction.
- Interplanetary voyages.
- Space ships--Fiction.
- Space ships.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Science fiction.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 128 pages ; 18 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berkley Books, 1983.
- Summary:
- The gigantic, cylindrical generation ship Vanguard, originally destined for Proxima Centauri, is cruising pilotless through the interstellar medium as a result of a failed mutiny that killed all of the piloting officers. The descendants of the surviving crew have forgotten the purpose and nature of their ship over time and lapsed into a pre-technological culture infested with superstition.
- Notes:
- Cover: Carl Lundgren.
- Originally published as a two-part serial in Astounding science fiction in 1941, under the titles: Universe and Common sense.
- Local Notes:
- Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
- ISBN:
- 0425048675
- 9780425048672
- OCLC:
- 980754415
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