The normal humans (who are farmers) live on the inner levels and are part of an interesting society. The ship is hurling aimlessly across space because of a distant mutiny where the officers were killed. The setting is a gigantic generation ship five miles long and two thousand feet across inhabited by men who think that this is “the world” and mutants (who happen to know more than the “normal men”). Heinlein again weaves magical fodder for the imagination using all his time tested plot devices. for stories that never materialized except as amorphous plot-less constructs in my mind. As a child I designed my own with predictions of social ramifications etc. Generation ships have always fascinated me.
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