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	The SF Site Featured Review: Orphans of the Sky
		One of those new worlds was Orphans of the Sky, first published in 1941 in two parts, Universe, and Common Sense.
		Orphans of the Sky is the prototypical multi-generation starship story.
		But the spaceship on the cover doesn't look anything like the spaceship described in Orphans of the Sky, and I don't know what book was read by whoever wrote the notes on the inside flap, but it wasn't by Robert A. Heinlein.
	www.sfsite.com /07b/os108.htm (603 words)

	CM Magazine: Orphans in the Sky. (Northern Lights Books for Children)
		As they rose into the night sky, Little Sister dispelled the dark with the flint and Brother's laughter made the sealskin crackle loudly.
		The orphans thus created Brother Thunder and Sister Lightning and became part of a new family of sun, moon, northern lights and stars.
		Their newfound sense of belonging was so complete, they chose to remain with this family when their people finally returned for them.
	www.umanitoba.ca /outreach/cm/vol11/no14/orphansinthesky.html (394 words)

	RainbowKids - Preschool for Orphans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Like many parents who have traveled across the world to adopt, Jenny Bowen of Berkeley, CA wondered what she could do to make a difference in the lives of the children left behind; the children who must grow up in orphanages.
		Jenny Bowen and her organization Half the Sky, is changing the lives of hundreds, soon to be thousands of children in Chinese Orphanages.
		Recently, Half the Sky received some wonderful news, "We had great news from Beijing last month: Half the Sky is now invited to build centers in Guangdong Province!" Said Ms.
	www.rainbowkids.com /2002/03/humanitarian/halfthesky.chtml (744 words)

	"Orphans Of The Sky"
		I agree that the women of Orphans were intelligent, but they had no chance to exercise that intelligence in the face of the society that evolved on board the ship.
		A major factor was the lack of harmful mutation caused by the radiation in *Orphans*.
		Orphans on the other hand was first published in 1941 when Heinlein was approaching his mid-thirtys.
	www.heinleinsociety.org /readersgroup/AIM_09-28-2000.html (12237 words)

	The View from the Foothills: Orphans of the Sky, by
		The View from the Foothills: Orphans of the Sky, by Robert A. Heinlein
		Probably every long-time science fiction fan has read Heinlein's short story "Universe"; as the first story to describe the now familiar "generation ship" concept for planting space colonies, it's been widely anthologized.
		Orphans of the Sky is simply the pair of tales back to back.
	foothills.wjduquette.com /archives/000126.html (267 words)

	Orphans of the Sky--James W. Moore
		Robert A. Heinlein: Orphans of the Sky, 1941/51
		Young Hugh Hoyland and two friends are exploring the forbidden upper-reaches of the Ship when they are attacked by a mutie.
		Orphans is a book that can be understood at multiple levels.
	www.wegrokit.com /jmoots.htm (1285 words)

	Amazon.com: Orphans of the Sky: Books: Robert A. Heinlein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Both were slightly modified by the author and published together as Orphans of the Sky in 1963.
		Like many of his other ground-breaking classics such as "Methuselah's Children" or "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress", "Orphans of the Sky" can read on the surface as a short exciting adventure tale that succeeds brilliantly.
		Indeed, it is so simple and straight forward that one could easily classify it as juvenile fiction that would thrill the young readers in your family and convert them to life long fans of the sci-fi genre.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0671318454?v=glance (1664 words)

	generation ship
		There is perhaps a strange attraction in the idea, though whether anyone would willingly volunteer to exile themselves to such an environment knowing that they would die some fraction of the way to the ultimate goal is hard to say.
		Perhaps there would be less of a psychological problem for subsequent generations who were born aboard the ship and therefore never knew what life was like on the surface of a planet under open skies.
		Then, again, how difficult would it be for those who finally reached journey's end to step outside the confines of their artificial world?
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/G/generationship.html (513 words)

	Amazon.com: Non-Stop: Books: Brian Wilson Aldiss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Written as response to Robert A. Heinlein's ORPHANS OF THE SKY, a novel he felt lacking in emotion, Aldiss' novel is a classic generation starship tale.
		The idea that their universe is the inside of a giant spaceship is known but derided in the Greene tribe.
		Aldiss puts an ironic twist to the generation starship tale, particularly ORPHANS OF THE SKY, when he reveals the exact situation of the ship.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0881844926?v=glance (1066 words)

	Robert A Heinlein Biography and List of Works - Robert A Heinlein Books
		Asian civilization is sometimes treated negatively in his work, as in his 1949 novel Sixth Column, in which the U.S. defends itself against invasion using a ray that only kills people with "asiatic blood;" the topic was pushed on Heinlein by an editor, and he was apparently embarrassed by the story later in his life.
		Tunnel in the Sky and Farmer in the Sky both contain negative depictions of overpopulation in Asia.
		Although it has been suggested that the spider-like enemies in Starship Troopers were meant to represent the Chinese, Heinlein wrote the book in response to the unilateral ending of nuclear testing by the U.S., so it is more likely that they were intended to represent communism.
	www.biblio.com /authors/224/Robert_A_Heinlein_Biography.html (3076 words)

	Metamorphosis Alpha Review
		There are literary precedents for such a setting, such as Robert Heinlein's Orphans of the Sky, Brian Aldiss's Starship, Gene Wolfe's excellent Book of the Long Sun, and even the short-lived television series The Starlost, but the confined setting of this first SF game is a curious contrast to Traveller's far-spanning galactic Empire.
		MA was a huge dungeon in the sky, with the aforementioned mutations and weird science and technology for players to discover and use.
		They never did catch on that they were in an enormous starship, even after encountering the section where the sun was permanently frozen in the sky, and the rain poured constantly in one specific zone.
	rdushay.home.mindspring.com /Museum/SF/MArevw.html (2576 words)

	Raven's Reviews: Robert Heinlein
		PG13- Tunnel in the Sky (v), Orphans of the Sky (v)
		This is especially aimed at the youngest set, 6-8 years old, with easy to follow science and plot, though kids up to 12 would probably enjoy it.
		In Orphans of the Sky, the people on the ship do not know that it is a ship.
	tatooine.fortunecity.com /leguin/405/pz/roberth2.html (2090 words)

	Review: Starship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Starship by Brian Aldiss takes its setting from "Universe" (Orphans of the Sky) by Robert Heinlein.
		The story begins after society has broken down and reformed, and the crew have forgotten that they live in a starship.
		Orphans of the Sky is "Universe" expanded to a novel, but I have not read it.
	www.cs.cmu.edu /afs/cs.cmu.edu/usr/roboman/www/sigma/review/starship.html (251 words)

	Fredric Jameson- Generic Discontinuities in SF: Brian Aldiss' Starship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		So it is that en route to space and to galactic escapism, we find ourselves locked in the force field of very earthly political realities.
		The British (and original) title of Starship is Non-Stop; the book Orphans of the Sky was published in book form in 1963.
		The narrative convention of the lost-spaceship-as-universe offers a particularly striking occasion to observe the differences between the so-called old and new waves in SF, since Aldiss’s Starship (1958) was preceded by a fine treatment of the same material by Robert A. Heinlein in Orphans of the Sky (serialized in 1941 as "Universe" and "Common Sense").
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/backissues/2/jameson2art.htm (4207 words)

	TANSTAAFL!
		In the 50s and 60s many, many more novels were released, including my second favourite, Orphans of the Sky and the classic The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
		Orphans of the Sky taught me the bliss of ignorance, and the dangers of it; the value and gift of a good education.
		Uncle Robbie changed the face of science fiction that had been set by (in my opinion) stuff-shirted HG Wells, and paved the way for great cyberpunks like William Gibson and Jon Courtenay Grimwood, though nothing could compare to the Grandmaster himself.
	www.geocities.com /tarynw42/rah.html (733 words)

	S - Heinlein Concordance
		Boy Scouts play a central role in Farmer in the Sky, "Nothing Ever Happens on the Moon", and "The Black Pits of Luna" (not surprising since the first two stories were written for the Boy Scout magazine Boys' Life).
		He'd taken the post on Mars because the lower gravity was good for her "medical condition (alcoholism).
		KG, VC, CBE, Governor General of the Imperial Realms Beyond the Sky; Governor of the British colony on Barsoom.
	pw1.netcom.com /~mecowan/hc/S_HC.htm (7546 words)

	SPACE.com -- Orion Nebula
		Orphans of the Sky: 13 Drifting Gas Planets Discovered in Orion Nebula
		"The IR sky is still a mystery to some extent," McCaughrean said.
		"There are now good near-IR sky surveys going on for the first time and we're seeing the galaxy in a completely different way.
	www.space.com /scienceastronomy/astronomy/orion_vlt_010118-3.html (461 words)

	Star Trek: For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky - TV.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky (episode #63)
		The plot device of the ship with inhabitants unaware they are on a ship is a direct parallel to Robert A. Heinlein's "Orphans of the Sky." Plagarized again (like "The Trouble With Tribbles") since there is no acknowledgement to RAH.
		Tell the world what you think of For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky.
	www.tv.com /star-trek/for-the-world-is-hollow-and-i-have-touched-the-sky/episode/24946/summary.html (357 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Orphans of the Sky at Epinions.com
		Robert Heinlein wrote over 50 books in his lifetime, both fiction and non-fiction.
		"Orphans in the Sky" reads like a work that he wrote on a whim and never got back to fully developing, but even that doesn't detract from the quality of...
		Additional information on Orphans of the Sky or other products.
	www.epinions.com /book_mu-9995003 (126 words)

	Half the Sky: Welcome
		Canadian donors wishing to make tax-deductible gifts to Half the Sky should make their contributions directly to HTS Foundation of Canada at the address above.
		See our first foster village come to life in Gaoyou, Jiangsu as we work to create a new life and permanent new families for preschool-age orphans from all over Jiangsu Province.
		Just click on SchoolPop, select Half the Sky as your nonprofit, and then enter the store of your choice.
	www.halfthesky.org (518 words)

	Orphans of the Sky (Heinlein's Future History) by Robert Heinlein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Orphans of the Sky (Heinlein's Future History) by Robert Heinlein
		FantasticFiction > Authors H > Robert Heinlein > Orphans of the Sky (Heinlein's Future History)
		Title: Orphans of the Sky (Gollancz SF S.)
	www.fantasticfiction.co.uk /h/robert-heinlein/orphans-of-sky.htm (132 words)

	Robert Heinlein Remembrances and Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		And I'm sure he'll take you by the hand Not as a stranger in a strange land And put you onto a glory road.
		I knew some Friday bye and bye You'd take that tunnel in the sky And with a different drummer Find your door into summer.
		I was a lost and lonely little country kid Till your book RED PLANET blew my mental lid Just one of all those things you did Till the day that SF died.
	home.comcast.net /~ghaff/docs/heinlein.html (760 words)

	Orphans of the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein Detailed Book Review
		Orphans of the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein Detailed Book Review
		Orphans of the Sky - Robert A. Heinlein Book Review
		Most similar books to Orphans of the Sky
	www.allreaders.com /Topics/Info_94.asp (641 words)

	Future History series - Robert A. Heinlein
		And there is Orphans of the Sky and another separate novel, Time Enough for Love.
		Novella; the first half of Orphans of the Sky.
		Novella; close sequel to "Universe"; the second half of Orphans of the Sky.
	www.troynovant.com /Franson/Heinlein/Future-History.html (1480 words)

	SPACE.com -- Orphans of the Sky: 13 Drifting Gas Planets Discovered in Orion Nebula
		SPACE.com -- Orphans of the Sky: 13 Drifting Gas Planets Discovered in Orion Nebula
		You might call them the 13 hippies of the observed universe.
		From the delightfully twisted creative minds behind Family Guy, American Dad features CIA operative Stan Smith, his outrageous family, and Roger, the alcoholic extra-terrestrial!
	www.space.com /science/astronomy/wandering_planets_000323.html (596 words)

	Bookwarp - Science Fiction, Fantasy, Comic Book & Graphic Novel Reviews
		NON-STOP Brian Aldiss I'm not a big fan of Aldiss' work, which I find to be rather dry and bloodless.
		Non-Stop is a "generation starship" story in the vein of Heinlein's Orphans of the Sky, though much bleaker than its progenitor.
		Roy Complain and his companions endeavor to travel beyond the confines of their windowless in-ship world and brave the dangers of corridors over-grown with hydroponic vegetation, malevolent human giants and most frightening of all, mutant vermin.
	www.bookwarp.com /reviews_a.htm (561 words)

	Legendary Science Fiction: The Robert A. Heinlein Page
		In 1964 the famous collection Orphans of the Sky was released, featuring Universe and Common Sense (both from 1941).
		Farnham's Freehold came out in1964, followed by one more HUGO-Award-winning novel in 1966, called The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
		Orphans Of The Sky re-released in December 2000 as a rare hardcover version by stealthpress.com.
	www.luna-city.com /sf/rah.htm (1246 words)

	Illustrated List of Heinlein Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		[G.025b] Slight revision for Orphans of the Sky.
		The second part of the story was later written and published ("Common Sense"), and the two parts together form Orphans of the Sky.
		[G.030b] Slight revision for Orphans of the Sky.
	www.cs.colorado.edu /~main/heinlein.html (6866 words)

	Orphans Of The Sky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		We didn't say too much about 'Orphans', but we had a lot of fun.
		AGplusone: None taken, but I think we were just talked out on Orphans...
		I've copied all the discussion about guests and John in particular into an email, with urls for both tonight's log and the other authors' logs.
	www.heinleinsociety.org /readersgroup/AIM_09-30-2000.html (7044 words)

	Generation Ship Campaigns - HERO GAMES Discussion Boards
		What happens to the society that developes after six or seven hundren uniterrupted years in space with no contact with the outside universe?
		I assume that you've read Robert Heinlein's novella, Orphans in the Sky (or is it Orphans of the Sky?).
		Multigeneration ship has a mutiny n generations into the trip, all officers are killed, radiation is released on certain decks of the ship.
	www.herogames.com /forums/showthread.php?t=18074 (1804 words)

	Heinein, Orphans of the Sky
		Fix-up Orphans of the Sky published in UK by Gollancz 1963
		What is the shape of the space ship?
		How do the implied values of OS forcast Heinlein's political views as a "right-wing anarchist, or 'libertarian,' much influenced by social Darwinism"?
	virtual.clemson.edu /groups/dial/sfclass/sfhtml/futurehist/orphans.html (41 words)

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