So why

[james_davis_nicoll]

Am I now seeing novels about generation ships actually reaching their destinations? Do the authors not understand how generation ship stories are supposed to work?

Comments

[nelc.livejournal.com]

Wasn't that a sleeper ship? I seem to recall some brain damage problems among the colonists due to hibernation (or possibly cosmic rays).

[seawasp]

Hmm, yes, you're probably right. I tend to confuse the two, even though they are distinct in function (the people arriving in the sleeper ship being, in theory, the same people who started and thus not hopefully having gotten quaint theories about the world, spaceships, etc.).

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, that was a sleeper ship.

-- Paul Clarke