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Survey Ship
Sometime in the future, the human race realizes how much the population is outgrowing the planet and decides to train people to go explore the galaxy to look for other inhabitable planets. The trainees are chosen for their intelligence at a very young age, then spend their entire childhood learning a skill such as medicine, engineering, physics, etc. When they reach adulth...more
Paperback, 240 pages
Published
May 1st 1986
by Ace
(first published October 1st 1980)
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Fun and simple "colony ship isolation" sci-fi, I read it when I was fifteen and loved the frank sexuality and day-dream inspiring sci-fi. I read it again a year or two ago, curious, and it still holds up quite nicely, for what it is.
It explores the stresses between smart humans. Smart folk think that if everyone were just smart, we wouldn't have any more problems. Hah! I think the book is very appealing to all nerds, or anyone who remembers being smart-outcast.
The book has a bunch of black and w...more
It explores the stresses between smart humans. Smart folk think that if everyone were just smart, we wouldn't have any more problems. Hah! I think the book is very appealing to all nerds, or anyone who remembers being smart-outcast.
The book has a bunch of black and w...more
I used to love this book when I was younger, and I guess I can still see why; reading it now, though, it's a really short novel about relationships in space.
And when you realize that everything happens in a span of... 3? 4? days, it gets a bit ridicolous.
There's also a repetitiveness of themes and actual dialogue, and everything is analyzed and explained, and then analyzed and explained again, and people get over lifetime issues during a conversation, which is ridicolous in itself.
Still, I think...more
And when you realize that everything happens in a span of... 3? 4? days, it gets a bit ridicolous.
There's also a repetitiveness of themes and actual dialogue, and everything is analyzed and explained, and then analyzed and explained again, and people get over lifetime issues during a conversation, which is ridicolous in itself.
Still, I think...more
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In the future the united space program selects talented young children to become future space explorers. These children go through years of training and in their 18th year, 4-10 of the children in the class (the best of the best)are chosen to crew a survey ship that goes out among the stars to find habitable planets. This is story of Survey Ship 103. This crew of 6 must survive themselves, the dangers of space travel, and a faulty star ship in order to complete their mission and help human...more
In the future the united space program selects talented young children to become future space explorers. These children go through years of training and in their 18th year, 4-10 of the children in the class (the best of the best)are chosen to crew a survey ship that goes out among the stars to find habitable planets. This is story of Survey Ship 103. This crew of 6 must survive themselves, the dangers of space travel, and a faulty star ship in order to complete their mission and help human...more
And oldie, and by my memory of it, probably pretty old fashioned by now. But I remember loving this when i was a teen!
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Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley was an American author of fantasy novels such as The Mists of Avalon and the Darkover series, often with a feminist outlook.
Born on a farm in Albany, New York, during the Great Depression, she began writing in 1949 and sold her first story to Vortex magazine in 1952. In 1965 Bradley graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Te...more
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Born on a farm in Albany, New York, during the Great Depression, she began writing in 1949 and sold her first story to Vortex magazine in 1952. In 1965 Bradley graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Te...more
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