![]() ![]() ![]() When Amy is awakened, suddenly everything gets shaken up. (He did learn from Eldest, however, that Hitler was a “heroic” leader on Old Earth.) And why, only now, is he being taught “the three causes of discord” so that he can lead the people on the ship? (You can sort of guess that “truth” and access to information would probably be on the list of things “causing discord.”) Eldest has supposedly been training Elder for the past three years, but Elder doesn’t know the first thing about the ship or how it operates. ![]() The story is told in alternating chapters by Amy and Elder.Įlder is rather bizarrely uncurious before Amy comes along. Under the tutelage of Eldest is a 16-year-old boy called Elder – he will be the next leader after Eldest dies. She finds some 2300 mono-ethnic people aboard – running the ship, growing its food, and living a rather bizarrely regulated existence under the dictatorship of a man called Eldest. After 250 years, however, Amy is mysteriously awakened, and cannot be refrozen. Seventeen-year-old Amy is part of a group of pioneers (including her parents) frozen for transport aboard the first manned interstellar exploratory ship, called Godspeed, sent from Earth to colonize a new planet in a projected landing time of 300 years. ![]()
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