[danielmryan]

Sounds like Orphans of the Sky by Robert Heinlein. ("Universe", "Common Sense".)

[davisfh]

Sounds like Orphans of the Sky by Robert Heinlein. ("Universe", "Common Sense".)"

I really don't recall. I was quite young when I read it - maybe late teens or early twenties - and this youngster is now seventy-four. That would be fifty-odd years ago. You think Heinlein's novel would be that old?

[Tijeras_Slim]

Or “The Ballad of Beta Two” by Sam Delaney.... similar faith in the ability of a society to function locked up in a can. ;)