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You might want to keep an eye on the suggestions people make here: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/6...
Lovelock fits that description, from the perspective of an enhanced capuchin.I feel like I've read more secluded-society-generation-spaceship books. I'll try to remember.
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The concluding story in the collection The Birthday of the World and Other Stories called "Paradises Lost" takes place on a generational starship. It might even be a novella at 100+ pages. It is a haunting story.
Oh! I just read Leviathan Wakes, which doesn't take place on the SSGS (secluded-society-generation-spaceship) but the ship has a key role towards the end. Heh, the ship is called the Nauvoo.
Oh, and Paradises Lost has a secluded society within a secluded society. Yeesh.
Not completely secluded, but Falling Free is about people genetically engineered to work in zero gravity, living on a space station.
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Also, if you are interest in space-related YA, I have a whole shelf of those books here. Another book from that list that sounds like it has a generational spaceship-type deal going on is The Mayflower Project.
They don't involve spaceships (well, not completely) but you might also dig Academy 7 (because of the romantic element), The Game (because of the action/mystery), and the Ender/Shadow series by Orson Scott Card. (because it is the most well-known YA space stuff out there. Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow are the two beginning books.)
Edit: I just looked at your shelves and you rated The Game 4 stars. (It was released earlier as Invitation to the Game)
Wow, thank you all for your input! I will make my way through the suggestions, some sound really great at first sight. :-) I will let you know which one made it to my to be read pile and how I liked them.
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First bit of feedback: I instantly had to get a copy of The Comet's Curse It sounds really good. But I think a lot more of your suggestions will make it. Ender`s Game has been crossing my way again and again when I was looking for books, so I think I will give in and get that one as well. It seems to be insisting to be read by me.
Eh?Eh! wrote: "Lovelock fits that description, from the perspective of an enhanced capuchin.I feel like I've read more secluded-society-generation-spaceship books. I'll try to remember."
I am not entirely sure I want to read a book narrated by a capuchin. It might be just perfect though. Did you read and enjoy it? The story itself sounds promising and indeed just what I am looking for.
Edit: Ok, it was a bargain as well, so I am giving it a shot. :-)
Ceridwen wrote: "The concluding story in the collection The Birthday of the World and Other Stories called "Paradises Lost" takes place on a generational starship. It might even be a novella at 100+ pa..."That sounds really good as well, I do love short stories...
The Mayflower Project sounds great as well... I might get an overkill of that genre ;-). But actually I enjoy reading books with similar themes, I love to compare. :-) And how can you NOT give a 1 Cent book (plus shipping though) a new and loving home?
Nadine wrote: "I am not entirely sure I want to read a book narrated by a capuchin. It might be just perfect though. Did you read and enjoy it? The story itself sounds promising and indeed just what I am looking for.Edit: Ok, it was a bargain as well, so I am giving it a shot. :-)"
Woohoo! I read it as a pre-teen and was shocked by some of it. I did love it, although my love has waned in the manymany eons since I read it. For your own reading experience, I hope you like it!
In a weird convergence, I was poking around the books listed in the First Reads giveaway program, and a generational starship novel was listed: Unity Alpha. Obviously, I have not read this, but hey! Giveaway!
Unfortunately they only give the Giveaway away (;-) ) to people in the US and Canada. I am in Germany, so Ican't participate. It does does interesting though.
Ceridwen wrote: "In a weird convergence, I was poking around the books listed in the First Reads giveaway program, and a generational starship novel was listed: Unity Alpha. Obviously, I have not re..."Ah just 99 Cent as a Kindle file. That is almost like a giveaway! :-)
Oh, whoops, I didn't notice where you were located. But cheap! So, good!
Ok, reporting back now: I just finished Unity Alpha and it was indeed fitting what I was looking for in terms of being a generation spaceship (within an asteroid). It sounded great so I gave it a shot. BUt I have to say I was highly disappointed. It felt like an amateur's novel, which doesn't have to be a bad thing. Non professionals wrote great stuff, often before they decided to do it full time. I had problems to imagine the rotating asteroid and the physics somehow, which surely partly was my fault, but I think it wasn't explained/sold in a convincing way.
The protagonists, a female police officer and a male technician are investigating some odd occurences and find out more and more about who is behind some strange power outages and missing items. The story is constructed in a boring way, they each stumble over mysterious things, then meet up to talk about it, then stumble over more stuff and talk about it again. I never cared for the characters and much less about their slowly growing fondness for each other. In short it all felt terribly constructed. I would have hoped for a better, more complex, maybe morally more interesting cause for the mysterious things happening. There is an interesting idea behind it all, but it seems dealt with as just a crazy scientist messing around.
It was a good suggestion and I don't mind having read the book as it covered the theme I was looking for and I am interested it at the moment, but it really felt like a cheapish detective story with an air of science fiction, when I was looking for something rather dealing with the problems of an enclosed society in a generation space ship. I hope I don't sound too negative about the book and the suggestion. It wasn't suggested by someone having read it anyway. And my verdict is that it isn't really recomendable.
I will keep you updated once I read more of your suggestions :-).
Didn't see it here but thought I'd add this one, it's a YA title from some time ago, but I did like the story. Earthseed
Non Stop by Brian Aldiss, that's very good!
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Are there similar (dystopian) books out there? Thanks for your help!