Questions tagged [generation-ship]
A generation ship is a hypothetical starship that travels across great distances between stars at a speed much slower than the speed of light, usually with the purpose of transporting humans for colonising new planets. Since such a ship might take thousands of years to reach even nearby stars, the original occupants of a generation ship would grow old and die, leaving their descendants to continue travelling.
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Old school sci-fi book about descendants on a generational spacecraft
I'm looking for the name of a sci-fi book based on a generational spacecraft that sent heavy rain (radioactive isotopes) to Earth because they were angry, then later sent a message to Earth warning ...
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Short story set on a generational ship in which the hero/villain has a device that enables him to run away from his enemies or desperate situations
I am searching for an old Sci-Fi short story, which my mother told me about.
According to her, it was in a Sci-Fi anthology, and it must have been written (or published?) approximately in the 60s-70s, ...
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Sci-fi book where POV character wakes up in a spaceship, doesn't fit in, turns out to be a "control" human [duplicate]
This was a sci-fi book, where roughly all I remember of it is the ending. The POV character is a human who awakens on a generational spaceship. They go about meeting the other inhabitants, learning ...
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Short novel about a generation ship run by a group of elders
It's a sci-fi/fantasy novel I read some years ago and I can't find it.
I don't know the title or the author.
It's about a multi generation star ship that is run by a team of 10-12 elders. They are ...
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Short story with suspended animation dude woken every year for a day, seeing previous crew live, die [duplicate]
Short story. I think in a magazine (Analog or IASFM or the like). Circa late 70s or early 80s.
There's a teenaged boy who is woken every year for one day, I guess his birthday. He interacts with ...
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People using genetic engineering to transform their offspring to live on a gaseous planet
I was hoping for some help. I remember parts of a science fiction plot point and I’m trying to locate the story. I’m not sure if it is a short story, a novel, or even an extremely short lived science ...
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Space colonization generation ship book
Someone asked a question like this recently, but didn’t have as many details about the book, and none of the answers seemed right to me. In the 1970s I read a book that was probably at least 10 years ...
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Novel about people on a generational ship who experience no external senses, except language-based communication
I once read the start of a novel in the SciFi section of a book store, but silly me didn't buy it & I haven't been able to find it again. If someone could identify it, that would bring me joy, ...
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The name of a novel about a generation ship [duplicate]
I am trying to remember the name of a novel I read when I was in high school about a generation ship. This was very late 70's early 80's so it had to be written before 83 when I graduated. I ...
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Short story about a giant ship that thoughtlessly destroys planets as it travels, is visited by a victim
I think I came across this ten or fifteen years ago, I cannot remember much clearly so some of these details may be mistaken. The story is told from the perspective of a crew member, on the bridge I ...
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Story where (deceased? frozen?) people are used as means of propulsion
I recall a story (or perhaps the memory is from a book?) where a spaceship accelerated by jettisoning human bodies at high speeds. I suppose they did not have any other reaction mass left. I think it ...
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80's-90's book with an inter-generational ship, society in despair, mythical creatures appear and kidnap kids for a quest [duplicate]
Read this book in the 80’s or 90’s. Sci-fi fantasy set aboard a generational ship, people despair because life has no meaning. Suddenly mythical creatures start appearing and some children are ...
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Sci-fi book with a generational spaceship traveling the interstellar void
Spaceship is gigantic. Most of the passengers don’t even realize that it’s a spaceship and the Author describes the world in great - captivating - detail. The ship has forests, lakes and generally ...
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70’s or older novel about people who do not know the are in a generation ship [duplicate]
I read this novel in french translation at least 40 years ago, but I am positive it was a translation from english.
The main character lives in a jungle of “poniques” (which are revealed at the end ...
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Generational Spaceship Designed to Explode at Destination
I'm looking for what I think was a short story, the style reminded me of Kim Stanley Robinson, but I couldn't find a match under his works. I think this was a fairly short story, that I read sometime ...
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