Name that book.?
A book i would love to read again, it is science fiction, about a tribe of people whose "bible" turns out to be maintainance book. its later discovered that their world is actually a huge spaceship which has returned to earth after thousands of years in space, during which time the occupants have evolved into smaller and smaller people with a much faster metabolic rate.weird eh!i read this book about 20yrs ago, it was old then. it ends when a rebel defies the preists and leads a band through the forbidden zones, eventully to the cockpit where they look down on earth for the first time.
Answer
It is called *non-stop*, and it is by brian aldiss.the american publishers insisted on retitling it *starship*, thus spoiling the whole revelation!