Global Information Lookup Global Information

Orphans of the Sky information


Orphans of the Sky
First US edition
(publ. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1964)
AuthorRobert A. Heinlein
Cover artistIrv Docktor
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction
PublisherVictor Gollancz Ltd (UK)
Publication date
1963
Media typePrint (Paperback)
ISBN9780671318451
OCLC751436515

Orphans of the Sky is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, consisting of two parts: "Universe" (Astounding Science Fiction, May 1941) and its sequel, "Common Sense" (Astounding Science Fiction, October 1941). The two novellas were first published together in book form in 1963. "Universe" was also published separately in 1951 as a 10¢ Dell paperback. The work presents one of the earliest fictional depictions of a generation ship.

and 21 Related for: Orphans of the Sky information

Request time (Page generated in 1.039 seconds.)

Orphans of the Sky

Last Update:

Orphans of the Sky is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, consisting of two parts: "Universe" (Astounding Science Fiction, May...

Word Count : 1305

For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky

Last Update:

"For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky" is the eighth episode of the third season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek...

Word Count : 1786

The Past Through Tomorrow

Last Update:

"Universe" (Orphans of the Sky). While regretting that several Future History stories Heinlein planned were never written, Algis Budrys praised the collection...

Word Count : 374

Orphans of Apollo

Last Update:

Orphans of Apollo is a 2008 documentary film analyzing the embryonic private spaceflight movement of the turn of the millennium, through MirCorp's attempt...

Word Count : 371

Time Enough for Love

Last Update:

from Heinlein's Orphans of the Sky: it was found derelict in space, but the survivors (descendants of the characters from Orphans) have adopted a hunter-gatherer...

Word Count : 1820

The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

Last Update:

the best restaurant of the space habitat "Golden Rule" is approached by a man who urges him that "Tolliver must die" and is himself shot before the writer's...

Word Count : 869

Starship

Last Update:

Vanguard from Robert A. Heinlein's "Orphans of the Sky" Relativistic: Ships that function by taking advantage of time dilation at close-to-light-speeds...

Word Count : 1309

Moonbat

Last Update:

(especially the far-left).[citation needed] Descriptions of bat-like people on the Moon were part of the 1835 Great Moon hoax. A long poem, The Proving of Gennad:...

Word Count : 764

Virginia Heinlein

Last Update:

engineer, and the third wife and muse of Robert A. Heinlein, a prominent and successful author often considered one of the "Big Three" of science fiction...

Word Count : 481

Jubal Harshaw

Last Update:

tribute. The main character of the novel, Valentine Michael Smith, enshrines him (much to Harshaw's initial chagrin) as the patron saint of the church he...

Word Count : 656

Metamorphosis Alpha

Last Update:

suggested that the game was inspired by Robert A. Heinlein's 1941 novel Orphans of the Sky. James M. Ward has stated that he was not familiar with the 1973 Canadian...

Word Count : 2840

List of fictional spacecraft

Last Update:

Orphans of the Sky Venture Star – starship transporting humans to the moon Pandora in the 2009 film Avatar Vonnegut – Spaceship transporting AIs of humans...

Word Count : 5701

Lazarus Long

Last Update:

a number of science fiction novels by Robert A. Heinlein. Born in 1912 in the third generation of a selective breeding experiment run by the Ira Howard...

Word Count : 1719

Space travel in science fiction

Last Update:

Lasted 600 Years (1940). The concept was popularized in Robert A. Heinlein's Universe, later expanded into the novel Orphans of the Sky (1964). Other classics...

Word Count : 3808

The Watch Below

Last Update:

liked the novel, stating that it was the first generation ship story to expand on Robert Heinlein's Orphans of the Sky. Budrys, Algis (August 1966). "Galaxy...

Word Count : 112

Castle in the Sky

Last Update:

follows orphans Sheeta and Pazu, who are pursued by government agent Muska, the army, and a group of pirates. They seek Sheeta's crystal necklace, the key...

Word Count : 7958

Project Moonbase

Last Update:

positions of authority and responsibility equal to men; as an example, the President of the United States is a woman. However, Colonel Breiteis, the female...

Word Count : 1150

The Notebooks of Lazarus Long

Last Update:

Enough for Love. The aphorisms were originally published as two "intermission" sections in the novel. In the context of the novel, the quotes were selected...

Word Count : 272

The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag

Last Update:

October 1942 issue of Unknown Worlds magazine under the pseudonym of "John Riverside". The novella also lends its title to a collection of Heinlein's short...

Word Count : 1294

Orphanage

Last Update:

supported all orphans of those killed in military service until the age of eighteen. Plato (Laws, 927) says: "Orphans should be placed under the care of public...

Word Count : 9694

Paul Churchland

Last Update:

with science fiction; he was particularly struck by the ideas in Robert A. Heinlein's Orphans of the Sky. Churchland liked building things in his father's...

Word Count : 2325

PDF Search Engine © AllGlobal.net