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

[ilya187.livejournal.com]

Plenty of reasons. I do not believe they will ever work[1] in real life either.

[1]"Work" in the sense of "successfully deliver human cargo to another star and founding a colony"

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

On the other hand, that they would actually be seriously tried, and yet fail to work in the kinds of interesting ways that happen in SF stories (instead of "everyone on board is dead within a year"), seems considerably less plausible.