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

[connactic.livejournal.com]

They were actually both- the colonists were kept frozen but the crew went through several generations.

[nathan helfinstine (from livejournal.com)]

That subtype strikes me as having appeared elsewhere, but I can't remember where offhand.

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

Must've been elsewhere too, but the video game Marathon had its eponymous hybrid generation/sleeper ship; the colonists were on ice, but the much smaller crew (nicknamed "BoBs", from "Born on Board") served out the mission in real time.

-- Steve had a lot of fun in that game; plot wasn't too bad, either.