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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Tangential

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

I am reminded of a David Gerrold Star Trek novel featuring the Enterprise discovering an earth-launched generation ship that hadn't "arrived" but was still basically on-mission. This posed an interesting engineering problem. The generation ship had been using a slow push over a very long time span, and had reached something like .999C. While the Enterprise had a Warp Drive that could go faster-than-light, getting their *Impulse* Drive to match velocities with the other ship at *near*-C was not something the engines were designed to do...

Re: Tangential

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

"The speed of C is a wall, they say...."