English Passengers

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They discover multiple cascading failures throughout the ship's systems, but the computer does not reveal the cause. Pride is a deadly sin and what can be a better disguise for pride than to hide it behind humility and piety. Its protagonist is 19-year-old William Cade, who wants to leave behind the backwater of his family farm for the bright lights of the city, but on moving into a community house whose members share meals and play ‘games’, slowly becomes embroiled in its cultish atmosphere and finds himself vulnerable to the intentions of Rose, its landlord.

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Shifting casks of brandy by the dozen, along with sheaves of tobacco and some interesting pieces of French glass, will tend to cause a bit of fuss and noise, after all. He considers reviving her for companionship, but struggles doing so, knowing it is morally wrong and will circumvent her intended life on their destination planet. As Gandhi replied, when asked what he thought of Western civilisation, “I think it would be a very good idea.That was a mystery to confound, yes, as Roingin never could be here, in the world, but must stay in theirs, as everybody knew.

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However, unbeknownst to the clergyman, one of his fellow travellers has an entirely different reason for journeying to the island. Major ones to try are the Library of Congress, Washington, the US National Archives and Records Administration, the Ellis Island Foundation, New York, Library and Archives Canada in Ottawa, the National Library of Australia, Canberra, the State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, Archives New Zealand, and the National Archives of Ireland. In what ways do they echo Potter’s pseudo-science and Wilson’s insistence on the literal truth of the Bible? Passenger lists are not held by The National Archives after 1960, when air travel became more common.

It was the surgeon of the three, Potter, who did best with his goodbyes, catching himself half a hospital's worth of doctors, all making little speeches to one another at how grand it was he was going. Distinguished speakers investigate those things in which we believe deeply – and for which we would be prepared to make a costly stand. So he said ours would not kill them after all if they went away to their land now and never came back. While the voicing of the stories mostly lacks the vivid immediacy of Kneale’s later novels, his ‘fine, subtle talent’ (David Robson, The Daily Telegraph, 23 March 2005) is frequently evident in the details (the elderly dog who ‘struggled to defecate’) and in moments which display his beguiling lightness of touch.