false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255964735m/229021.jpg 229021 10 In 2198, one hundred and fifty years after the desperate wars that destroyed an overpopulated Earth, Man lives precariously on a hundred hastily-established colony worlds and in the seven giant Ships that once ferried men to the stars. Mia Havero's Ship is a small closed society. It tests its children by casting them out to live or die in a month of Trial in the hostile wilds of a colony world. Mia Havero's Trial is fast approaching and in the meantime she must learn not only the skills that will keep her alive but the deeper courage to face herself and her world. Published originally in 1968, Alexei Panshin's Nebula Award-winning classic has lost none of its relevance, with its keen exploration of societal stagnation and the resilience of youth. 2160570 1968 Rite of Passage total:95|5:30|4:40|3:22|2:3|1:0| 95 382 164 17 5 2 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1980 Tue Feb 05 14:35:26 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 05 14:38:38 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Mon Sep 03 15:45:07 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 03 15:45:07 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999 Mon Dec 15 17:23:26 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 17:34:13 -0800 2008
The denizens of generational starship become the technological overlords of the worlds they helped colonized.

T...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Dec 25 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 19 22:41:59 -0800 2008 Sun Apr 05 21:18:49 -0700 2009 Rite of Passage again. For some reason, this story is very close to my heart. It's a story of a young girl, Mia, living in a floating spaceship, facing the Trial of her society. This Trial is the mark of adulthood in their community of thirty thousand, their 'Rite of Passage'...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jun 13 20:26:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 23 21:40:09 -0700 2008
Really, they did know what they were doing when they gave this book a Nebula award.

I think one of the reasons it hasn't maintained the enduring audience of some of other classics fr...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Nov 14 16:09:47 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 19:11:30 -0800 2009 The rite of passage is to drop the teenagers on a planet for a month, and if they survive to be picked up they are judged to be adults.
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