Either the computer running the ship goes mad, or the crew – after hundreds of generations – de-evolve into barbarism or everything goes fine and dandy until they arrive at their destination and either the planet in question is inhospitable or it’s populated by sentient spiders or it’s been destroyed by a meteorite. This is because nothing ever goes right on the Generation ship. While I can’t say I’m an expert in this particular sub-genre I do know that if I was ever given the opportunity to board one of these ships I’d rip up the boarding pass and hide in a cave, even if it was the only way to escape a doomed world. knee-jerk observationsĪn Unkindness of Ghosts is a Generation Starship novel. It’s a debut novel to boot which makes it a little more exciting. I was thinking of dipping into some of the novellas that have been burning a hole in my e-reader but then one of my favourite critics, Abigail Nussbaum, recommended An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon and given it’s also sitting on my phone waiting to be read I thought yeah, why not… let’s give it a whirl.
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