It is a bit on me as I am a space nerd and a science geek, that is why the hard science approach of Aurora is more up my alley.Īn Unkindness of Ghosts is a generation ship novel for sure but the HSS Matilda is more of a literary device or mirror to the antebellum south than an actual spaceship. It has nothing to do with weaknesses in the book which there are few. I have to admit that this book took a little while to hook me but from the start, I knew the writing was excellent. I am glad they did because An Unkindness of Ghosts is indeed an important work in the subgenre and the wider field of Science fiction in general. Panelist and professor Lisa Yasek disagreed and told me that I needed to read An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon. During a panel, I co-hosted for the Dickheads podcast I glibly suggested that Kim Stanley Robinson had the final word on the generation ship novel with his hard SF masterpiece Aurora. With hundreds of entries by some of the biggest names in the genre, it is easy to think that everything has been said. One of the most common subgenres of science fiction is the Generation ship novel.
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