Kim Miller
A primitive subsistence agrarian tribe fights against neighbouring tribes. Their environment is a strange combination of rapidly growing plants and long corridors with rooms each side. An activist preacher takes three others on an exploration, saying they are on a ship and not in a jungle. It is soon apparent that he is correct. They don't understand space or space ships as their whole world has been inside.
They meet other inhabitants, some hostile and some seemingly neutral to them. These others know more of the reality of the ship but still have no knowledge of what is outside. With ancient and scarce weapons and tools they get into fights until the point where everyone is at war with everyone else and the integrity of the ship itself is threatened.
The ship's captain's diary from generations ago is found and reveals what happened to the original crew of this colony ship, which has been on it's way back to Earth for so many years from the planet they were colonising. As the story closes we find that the ship has been infected by that other planet's biology and has been held in quarantine in orbit around Earth for generations.
A primitive subsistence agrarian tribe fights against neighbouring tribes. Their environment is a strange combination of rapidly growing plants and long corridors with rooms each side. An activist preacher takes three others on an exploration, saying they are on a ship and not in a jungle. It is soon apparent that he is correct. They don't understand space or space ships as their whole world has been inside.
They meet other inhabitants, some hostile and some seemingly neutral to them. These others know more of the reality of the ship but still have no knowledge of what is outside. With ancient and scarce weapons and tools they get into fights until the point where everyone is at war with everyone else and the integrity of the ship itself is threatened.
The ship's captain's diary from generations ago is found and reveals what happened to the original crew of this colony ship, which has been on it's way back to Earth for so many years from the planet they were colonising. As the story closes we find that the ship has been infected by that other planet's biology and has been held in quarantine in orbit around Earth for generations.