Pamela Sargent

The classic YA science fiction adventure by Nebula and Locus Award-winning author Pamela Sargent The ship hurtles through space. Deep within its core, it carries the seed of humankind. Launched by the people of a dying Earth over a century ago, its mission is to find a habitable world for the children-fifteen-year-old Zoheret and her shipmates-whom it has created from its genetic banks. To Zoheret and her shipmates, Ship has been mother, father, and loving teacher, preparing them for their biggest challenge: to survive on their own, on an uninhabited planet, without Ship's protection. Now that day is almost upon them...but are they ready to leave Ship? Ship devises a test. And suddenly, instincts that have been latent for over a hundred years take over. Zoheret watches as friends become strangers-and enemies. Can Zoheret and her companions overcome the biggest obstacle to the survival of the human race-themselves?

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"Every quality," Ship murmured, "can be either a good or an evil thing. It depends on how it is directed. You are conscious, thinking beings, and you have a choice. You have a rich heritage, as well as the chance to begin anew. Concentrating only on the bad will give you a distorted picture, and will cripple you in the end!”

Lillka asked too many questions and thought she could answer them by thinking and reading. Well, she couldn't. Some of them could be answered only by experience, and others would never be answered. That was the way things were, and there was nothing to be done about it.

It's what you do when things are hard that counts. Ship had told them that often enough. Humankind is made for difficult tasks; without them, you will grow weak. Ship would not have wanted them to take the easy way. Ship's words were little comfort to her now.

“There is so much to learn, so much to see. One could journey through space forever without encompassing all its wonders."

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