Plot Introduction
A huge spaceship, manned by a chemically castrated all-male crew of nearly a thousand, who are on an extended scientific mission to explore interstellar space, encounters several, mostly hostile, aliens and alien civilizations. On board the spaceship during its journey, both political and scientific revolutions take place.
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