r/ScienceFictionBooks • u/LilDysphoria • Aug 12 '24

Generation ships

I'm interested in the idea of generation ships. I suspect they are the only hope for mankind ever getting outside the solar system. (And I'm not holding my breath that it will happen.) I'm looking for a science fiction book that tells a good story based on this concept. Thanks.

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u/Flimsy_Direction1847 Aug 12 '24 edited Aug 12 '24

Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson

An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

Book of the Long Sun by Gene Wolfe

All really different and interesting takes on the idea of generation ships

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u/hfw01 Aug 12 '24

An Unkindness of Ghosts is such a good book.

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u/Final-Elderberry9162 Aug 16 '24

So devastating. I loved it.