![]() ![]() ![]() She is a Heinlein-type hero where the future is full of possibilities and older people provide mentoring to the young. We follow her as grows from narrow minded prejudice to something of an awakening. After the rite of passage the children assume the roles as adults. Our main character, a preteen girl, is followed as she matures and trains to pass a 'rite of passage' by surviving on a colony world. They regulate their population to stay within the capacity of the ship, scorning 'free-birthers' and surviving by withholding technology so they can trade goods for raw materials. After the ship delivered colonists to their target worlds, 150 years before, the ship's crew continued to live on the ship. The framework is a former colony ship that travels between the stars. This is a 1968 coming of age story in the tradition of early, juvenile writer Robert Heinlein. ![]()
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