Robert Silverberg 16 min read

In the cornfield deep within the mighty Starship I, Peter Conroy hides from Bayliss Kent and his hunters, a fugitive on a generation-ship where whole societies live between the levels.

Robert Silverberg's 1958 story is a rousing generation-ship space opera. Fast, vivid golden-age SF. Read it for a brisk Silverberg adventure aboard a vast interstellar ark, where a hunted man from the farming section uses his wits against his pursuers, in a colorful golden-age piece rich with the drama of a whole world traveling between the stars.

In its time

Published in 1958, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

16 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).