Generation Ship

Look, I wasn't NOT going to read a book called GENERATION SHIP when I spend half my life telling people that's one of my favorite tropes/settings/etc. I was always going to like this. Was it perfect? No. Did I enjoy my time and keep wanting to read because I'm just a simple woman? Yes. I'd say this was maybe a little long and occasionally suffered a TINY bit from the “set on a spaceship but you forget they're in space” issue that a lot of generation ship stories run into. It never lasted too long though, and the political intrigue abounded. I'm so happy this wasn't one of those generation ship books where they never reach the planet and instead turn around to go back to Earth while still in our solar system. Authors are doing that too much lately. I want to see the planet you spend the whole book telling us about!!! Thank you Michael Mammay for delivering on that promise.

Michael Mammay gives a nice take on the generation ship concept. Unlike in many generation ship stories, the crew have not degenerated to savagery and forgotten their origins. They have kept their skills and technological knowhow. They know who they are, what they are doing, and why they are doing it. However, over the generations ship society has ossified, and the upcoming arrival in the target system is shaking things up. And well ... people will be people, you know.
Good SF. Solid 4 stars.

A giant space ship leaves Earth to colonise a distant planet. After 250 years and several generations of the community of 18,000 people, the planet is near. Of course, it's all going to go as planned, isn't it? Come on, you all know it isn't. An autocratic Governor of the community, a ship's captain who seems to be nowhere, a security officer trying to climb to power, a dedicated project scientist trying to be heard, and a bunch of misfits who have won the lottery of being alive at the final approach. But what if the planet has other plans? And remember HAL from that other movie? Yeah, don't worry about that.