[Sca-librarians] Looking for a book and two movies

[galefridus at optimum.net]

On reflection, it occurs to me that #5 might be Heinlein's _Orphans of the Sky_.

-- Galefridus

> 5. A book in which members of the engineering caste undertake a
> voyage as part of a rite of passage into adulthood. The
> protagonist
> is given one or more keys. He travels to an agricultural area,
> some
> sort of deep thought area with people in floating chairs or some
> such
> thing, and eventually discovers that he is on a colony ship.
> This
> discovery is something which was unknown to the engineering
> caste,
> and only the engineering caste had preserved moving between levels.