![]() Hugh is captured by muties, but instead of being killed, he becomes the servant and, eventually, friend of Joe-Jim, a two-headed mutie. ![]() Hugh longs to be a Scientist - the learned members of the crew who read books and tend to important ship-related duties. The book follows the long and strange journey of Hugh Hoyland. The ship is their whole world and the idea that anything could be “outside” or that the ship moves is unfathomable, much like humans on earth once thought the earth was flat or that the sun moved around us and that anything else was heresy. There are no windows, so there is no way to see outside. The bulk of the crew is killed, the ship stops moving and the remaining people on board are split into two factions: the crew and the cannibalistic “muties.” After several generations, both groups forget everything about the mission or that there is even anything that exists outside of the ship. The story takes place on a colony ship that was on its way to another world when it is seized by mutiny. Robert Heinlein frequently pokes at religion in his books, questioning and analyzing it, but “Orphans of the Sky” is a truly unique and frighteningly real story that explores and questions the origins of religion. ![]()
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