Generational Ships

[J.W.]

I just finished "Aurora" by Kim Stanley Robinson and enjoyed it quite a bit, though it felt a tad bloated. Looking for more books about generational ships and colony ships.

[J.W.]

I should mention I'd prefer it being more on the hard sci-fi side but if there are some great books that are primarily character driven in this genre I could go for it too.

[Margaret]

Heinlein's Orphans of the Sky is a classic.

[Marc-André]

Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama is about an alien ark, but writen from the point of view of Terrans who visite the strange passing vessel. It is a classic and very good if you do not mind thin plots and characters, and instead focus on the ark itself.

In Charles Stross' Accelerando, part of it happens on a generational ship of sorts. But people's minds are downloaded in the ship instead of the actually travelling physically on such a ship.

If you can read French, Bernard Weber's Le papillon des étoiles is about a generational ship and the people on it.

There is a list here on goodreads about generational ships. https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

[Hank]

Definitely check out Children of Time only about 1/2 is generational ship based but it is a great book.

[Monica]

What Hank said ^^

[Trike]

The short story and essay collection Going Interstellar has a couple stories and essays about generation ships. This collection is hard science fiction and has a very good signal to noise ratio. Mostly superb stories.

My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[John]

Rite of Passage by Alexei Panshin. It's an old book (copyright 1968), and I first read it a couple of decades ago; but I still remember it as a good read.

Definitely a generational ship novel, start to finish.

[Jan]

Marrow was a really good read.

[J.W.]

Thank you for all the recommendations! I was already waiting on Children of Time at the library so I'll start there and work through more!

[Glynis]

I enjoyed Learning the World by Ken Macleod. It is also a first contact story but I found his focus on generational ship problems very interesting.

[Donald]

One of the plot strands of On the Steel Breeze is largely contained on a generation armada.

[Krazykiwi]

Glynis wrote: "I enjoyed Learning the World by Ken Macleod. It is also a first contact story but I found his focus on generational ship problems very interesting."

A second for this book. I loved it.
Learning the World

Also Hull Zero Three

[Jen]

I haven't read it for a while, but I quite liked Brian Aldiss' Non-Stop . Heart of the Comet is another favourite.

[J.W.]

Children of Time was amazing! Wow. Loved it. On to another!

[Ben]

Not sure how hard it is, but I liked Mur Lafferty's Six Wakes. It's a murder mystery with clones set on a generation ship.