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This tag should be used for questions related to Robert Heinlein's 1963 novel "Orphans of the Sky," though it may also be useful in the context of questions dealing with the 1941 short stories "Universe" and "Common Sense," from which the novel was derived.

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Was "Orphans of the Sky" intended to parallel the Bible?

Heinlein's Orphans of the Sky contains some things that, to me at least, appear to be direct religious commentary / allegory / parody. For instance, the name of "Jordan" being God, and the mention tha …
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