In the novella, a gigantic, cylindrical generation ship is cruising pilotless toward a distant solar system, inhabited by a crew that has forgotten their origins over time and lapsed into superstition. Most crew members lead a simple bucolic life of farming, never venturing to the upper decks where the "muties" (mutants or mutineers) dwell. One day, Hugh Hoyland starts exploring and finds the astonishing secret of the ship's purpose. This story refers to the sister ship of New Frontiers, the ship stolen by the Howard families in the story Methuselah's Children. This ship and the aftermath of this story are mentioned in passing in the novel Time Enough for Love.
Regarded as the most influential writer of modern science fiction, author RobertHeinlein is ranked as one of the four luminaries of the Golden Age of science fiction, along with Isaac Asimov, Theodore Sturgeon, and A.
Heinlein was admitted to the Naval Academy at Annapolis in June of 1925.
Heinlein was eager to support the American war effort, but his attempt to re-enlist was denied, due to his myopia and previous health difficulties, but he found work as a civilian engineer at the Naval Air Experiment Center in Philadelphia.
Robert Anson Heinlein was born in Butler, Missouri.
Heinlein’s novel Starship Troopers (1959), originally written for a juvenile audience, received attention for its controversial portrayal of a future in which humans are at war with a giant insect-like life form from other planets.
Heinlein won a total of four Hugo Awards, and in 1974 he won the first Grand Master Nebula Award, given by the Science Fiction Writers of America (now Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America) for lifetime achievement in science fiction.
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