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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2013-09-30 01:23 pm

So why

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?

[identity profile] anton-p-nym.livejournal.com 2013-10-01 07:56 pm (UTC)(link)
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.