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Awful Truth: One of the messages of this book is that even an awful truth is better than a lie.Artistic License – Physics: Eldest's explanation of the broken engine, although this is lampshaded and subverted in the second book.

All of the Other Reindeer: Amy is shunned by almost the entire population due to her unique appearance.

It's not known whether he feels the same way.

Age-Gap Romance: Victria loves Orion, her twenty-years-older literary mentor.

Affectionate Nickname: Harley calls Amy "Lttle Fish" because her red hair reminds him of the koi fish he likes to paint.

Aerith and Bob: For once inverted, Amy has the weirdest name on the ship because she's from Sol-Earth, Victria, Lorin, Bartie and Stevy are the norm.

He also has a crush on Amy, who is utterly unlike any of the other women on the ship. He believes that the current leader, Eldest, is keeping secrets about the ship and its journey from them, and is determined to uncover them. The story alternates between her perspective and that of Elder, the future leader-in-training of Godspeed. Amy tries to adapt to the strange dystopian society aboard Godspeed and track down the attempted murderer before he can do the same to any of the other colonists. The future colonists are kept in cryogenic pods, while generation after generation of shippers keep the Godspeed functioning.Īmy, the teenage daughter of two essential personnel, is abruptly woken up while the ship is still en route when her cryogenic pod is unplugged - someone tried to murder her. Across the Universe is a trilogy of sci-fi books by Beth Revis, set on a Generation Ship making a slow sublight journey to a planet to set up a colony.