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Generation ship is a trope with countless examples, no single one. It's practically a vocabulary word like 'space ship'. I would have said Brian W. Aldiss 'Non
by Brian_K_White 4y ago
Generation ship is a trope with countless examples, no single one. It's practically a vocabulary word like 'space ship'.
I would have said Brian W. Aldiss 'Non-Stop' or Ben Bova 'The Exiles' or Harlan Ellison 'The Starlost', but only because they just happen to be some of the examples I happen to have encountered and found particularly memorable. I've probably read and forgotten 20 others.
- blamestross 4y agoOrphans of the Sky wins the influence race by being published in 1951.
- euroderf 4y agoThe Canadian TV adaptation of Starlost was great. Keir Dullea, gone tomorrow. Low-budget fun. Worth a watch.
- toyg 4y agoWell, good for you - not everyone is as well-versed in sci-fi tropes.
- Brian_K_White 4y agoLet me see... You can presume to correct the blog author while in fact being in error yourself, yet you can not tolerate being corrected. Got it.
- toyg 4y agoYou seem to have a problem with the correct use of words. 1. Ignorance is not error. 2. There was no correction. I simply suggested it would have been somewhat polite to point people in the direction of their original sources, considering the very literary post.
- Brian_K_White 4y agoIt's true I should have said you can't tolerate being informed since that's really all I did.