Jay Lake's "The Dead Man's Child" (short story, star travel, free)

This is one of the innumerable variations of Heinlein's very well known "Universe" (download MP3 of radio adaptation): huge spaceship on its centuries spanning voyage to somewhere among the stars at a slower than light speed, where most residents have forgotten the purpose of the voyage & take the ship for the world. And someone is about to get enlightened.

Fact sheet.

First published: Cosmos. When?
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Rating: B.
Related: Stories of Jay Lake.