Publisher's Synopsis
- The gigantic starship Ark was launched on a voyage of ten-thousand years from an Earth on the brink of collapse. Its mission was to carry a portion of the human race to a new home circling another star - but, centuries after its departure, the descendants of the original crew no longer remember that they are on a city-sized spaceship, and know nothing of the Ark's mission, nor of the starry universe outside. The Prophetsy, a theocracy based on slavery and terror, has ruled over most of the Ark for longer than anyone now living can remember, and it has just succeeded in conquering the few remaining free regions of the ship. Yet there are chinks in the monolithic tyranny...
