Universe
by Robert Heinlein
This book is part of a double-book volume, along with Silent Thunder by Dean Ing. I haven't read the Dean Ing part yet.
This story takes place on a great space ship en-route between the stars. Exactly what star it comes from is never specified, but I'd guess it's Sol (Earth's star). Unaltered humans control a vanishingly small fraction of the ship, farming and living in the high gravity region. Mutants control another large region of it, while much of it is uninhabited.
Our hero starts out as an unaltered human, but has to leave the farming regions. He comes into contact with an unusually intelligent mutant, in the form of a pair of siamese twins who think of themselves as a single individual (sort of). He finds out about what the ship is and how it works, and when he goes back to his people he is completely outcast.
The end of this book is pretty darn unsatisfying; it reads as though it doesn't finish at all.
Overall I give this a 4/10
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