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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[ilya187.livejournal.com]

"Chasm City" has a unique AFAIK plot twist: Several generation ships are launched simultaneously, for redundancy and also in order to avoid stagnation -- there would be continuous cultural exchange en route. As time goes on, people in different ships get more and more suspicious of each other and mutually hostile, until by the time of planetfall they are almost in open war. Few years after planetfall, drop "almost".