![]() ![]() ![]() Rite of Passage is a first person narrative with a strong, young female voice, which makes the fact that it was written by a man in his late twenties as a first novel all the more remarkable. The only problem is that the planet they are being sent to turns out to hold a lot more challenges and dangers than usual, including one threat that may change Ship society forever. This tradition ensures that the ships do not become overpopulated as well as weeding out those who cannot survive by their own skills or cunning. Those who survive this “Rite of Passage” return to the ship and are considered adults. Mia Havero has grown up on one of these ships in a safe and secure environment, but as she approaches her fourteenth year, she must prepare for “the Trial”, a month long exile amid the wilderness on a colony world. Civilization is preserved aboard 7 giant ships that travel amid the hundred colony worlds that still hold the human civilization. The Earth no longer exists, destroyed amid desperate wars and overcrowding. Written by American SF critic and author Alexi Panshin, Rite of Passage is a semi-dystopian novel about the Universe in 2198. ![]() Rite of Passage was first published in 1968 and won the Nebula award that same year. Books that somehow alter your perspective on the world for the better and make you feel more prepared to face the challenges in your own life, even if that novel is a work of fiction. There are books that change your life when you read them. ![]()
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