Tor Double #35: Silent Thunder / Universe

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Tor Double #35: Silent Thunder / Universe

Author:	Robert A. Heinlein Dean Ing
Publisher:	Tor, 1991
Series:	Tor Double: Book 35
1. Tor Double #1: A Meeting With Medusa / Green Mars 2. Tor Double #2: Hardfought / Cascade Point 3. Tor Double #3: Born With The Dead / The Saliva Tree 4. Tor Double #4: Tango Charley and Foxtrot Remeo / The Star Pit 5. Tor Double #5: No Truce With Kings / Ship of Shadows 6. Tor Double #6: Enemy Mine / Another Orphan 7. Tor Double #7: Screwtop / The Girl Who Was Plugged In 8. Tor Double #8: The Nemesis From Terra / Battle for the Stars 9. Tor Double #9: The Ugly Little Boy / The [Widget], The [Wadget], and Boff 10. Tor Double #10: Sailing to Byzantium / Seven American Nights 11. Tor Double #11: Houston, Houston, Do You Read? / Souls 12. Tor Double #12: He Who Shapes / The Infinity Box 13. Tor Double #13: The Blind Geometer / The New Atlantis 14. Tor Double #14: The Saturn Game / Iceborn 15. Tor Double #15: The Last Castle / Nightwings 16. Tor Double #16: The Color of Neanderthal Eyes / And Strange At Ecbatan the Trees 17. Tor Double #17: Divide and Rule / The Sword of Rhiannon 18. Tor Double #18: Vintage Season / In Another Country 19. Tor Double #19: Ill Met In Lankhmar / The Fair in Emain Macha 20. Tor Double #20: The Pugnacious Peacemaker / The Wheels of If 21. Tor Double #21: Home is the Hangman / We, In Some Strange Power's Employ 22. Tor Double #22: Thieves' Carnival / The Jewel of Bas 23. Tor Double #23: Riding The Torch / Tin Soldier 24. Tor Double #24: Elegy For Angels And Dogs / The Graveyard Heart 25. Tor Double #25: Fugue State / The Death of Doctor Island 26. Tor Double #26: Press Enter / Hawksbill Station 27. Tor Double #27: Eye for Eye / The Tunesmith 28. Tor Double #28: A Short Sharp Shock / The Dragon Masters 29. Tor Double #29: Nanowire Time / The Persistence of Vision 30. Tor Double #30: The Longest Voyage / Slow Lightning 31. Tor Double #31: Naked to the Stars / The Alien Way 32. Tor Double #32: Run For The Stars / Echoes of Thunder 33. Tor Double #33: Bwana / Bully! 34. Tor Double #34: Rule Golden / Double Meaning 35. Tor Double #35: Silent Thunder / Universe 36. Tor Double #36: Conjure Wife / Our Lady of Darkness
Book Type:	Anthology
Genre:	Science-Fiction
Sub-Genre Tags:	Space Exploration Mundane SF
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Synopsis

Silent Thunder:

A techno thriller. A unique mix of Sci-Fi and historic fiction. It's said to resonate with political events of the 1991 timeframe.

Universe:

This novelette was combined with its sequel, "Common Sense", to form "Orphans of the Sky" in 1963.

The gigantic, cylindrical generation ship Vanguard, originally destined for "Far Centaurus", is cruising without guidance through the interstellar medium as a result of a long-ago mutiny that killed most of the officers. Over time, the descendants of the surviving loyal crew have forgotten the purpose and nature of their ship and lapsed into a pre-technological culture marked by superstition. They come to believe the "Ship" is the entire universe, so that "To move the ship" is considered an oxymoron, and references to the Ship's "voyage" are interpreted as religious metaphor. They are ruled by an oligarchy of "officers" and "scientists". Most crew members are simple illiterate farmers, seldom or never venturing to the "upper decks" where the "muties" (an abbreviation of "mutants" or "mutineers") dwell. Among the crew, all identifiable mutants are killed at birth.