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?

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[connatic]

Didn't Ken MacLeod have one a few years ago (Learning the World)?

[connactic.livejournal.com]

gah- I reloaded my page several times to see if I could clear the issue that was making it look like you have my lj username....

Anyway- "Learning the World" only kind of counts- the future society in the novel has no deaths due to aging/disease, so the founder generation is still around on the ship.

[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

And IIRC they only pop kids near the end, after they've blown most of their reaction mass and have room.

[youraugustine.livejournal.com]

pssst: you're connaCtic, he's connatic. There's a difference of a C.

[daev.livejournal.com]

whoosh