Earthseed (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Pamela Sargent
- First Published: 1983
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—cosmic voyage
- Time of Work: Near the end of a one-hundred-year space voyage
- Setting: Aboard an asteroid space vessel and on an unnamed planet
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Other worlds, Space flight or travel, Space ships, stations, or vehicles, Domestic violence, Hostages or hostage taking
- Locales: Space, Fictional planets
The Plot
Earthseed is distinguished by the fact that it was the first novel that author Pamela Sargent wrote for young adults. It concerns a group of adolescents who have been reared on a space vessel by its computer in order to populate a new world. This scenario is complicated by two factors. The first is the violent instinct of the human race, reflected in the behavior of the children and the stowaway adults. The second, as important, is the true nature of the Project, which has been kept secret from both Ship and the children.
Sargent’s novel centers on...
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