My ship continues onward to that farthest star, understanding the generation ship genre. My next stop for the resources that would help me along the journey is Emily Devenport’s Medusa Uploaded. Oichi is flushed out an airlock on suspicion of being an insurgent. She manages to survive the initial moments through her tenacity and awareness.…
Welcome back to another year of the Quill to Live’s Sci-Fi Fantasy March Madness! Every year in March, I find myself roped into all sorts of fantasy and sci-fi fight conversations. “Who would win in a fight between X and Y?” is a constant topic among fans, as everyone wants to make an inane argument…
Continue reading ➞ QTL March Madness 2025: Coolest Science Fiction Ships
Continuing my quest into the deep reaches of space, I stumbled across this next book deep in a Reddit thread. Marrow, by Robert Reed, is the beginning of what I assume to be a strange journey into the hell that is the infinite cosmos. I mean this with love and respect, as I adored this…
Last year I gave in to my baser instincts and started to pick up more generation ship books. It has always been a subgenre of interest, whether it's a book or a TV show (yeah, I watched Ascension, judge all you want). The nature of the journey is a siren song paired with the rocks…
Continue reading ➞ The First Generation – Launch Day for the Generation Ship
My one experience with Rivers Solomon’s growing library of work has been with The Deep. An ambitious little novella that transcended the future and envisioned a world that has grown out of communal suffering. I decided to pick up their debut, An Unkindness of Ghosts because it took place on a generation ship - much…
Continue reading ➞ An Unkindness of Ghosts – An Inspiring Haunt
I am trying not to make this the year of generation ships, so let’s settle for the quarter of this wonderful sub-genre. This is just what happens when Alex gets to read what Alex wants. I want to highlight this particular book because Adam Oyebanji’s debut hits on so much of what I crave in…
The Dark Beyond The Stars, by Frank M. Robinson, was not a book I heard about until I found it at a library book sale. Sporting a decidedly 1990s science fiction book cover (being from that time), complete with the requisite title font, I couldn’t help picking it up for two dollars. It boasted of…
Continue reading ➞ The Dark Beyond The Stars – A Satisfying Step Out Of The Light
I’m going to try and restrain my strong desire to be nitpicky with this book. I’m coming hot off of finishing it, and let’s just say I very much disliked this novel. I haven’t read Mammay’s previous work, constantly putting it off for one reason or another. But I am like a smaller celestial body…
Continue reading ➞ Generation Ship – Intergenerational Drama, Or The Lack Thereof
The Phoenix is eleven years into its journey to Planet X, a planet deemed habitable for human life. A bomb goes off, killing three members of the crew, including its captain. Asuka is the lone surviving witness, and in some folks’ eyes, the prime suspect. She was the last picked for the 80 person mission,…
Post by Alex Tas. I have been eagerly awaiting a chance to read Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy, but since I am already bogged down in so many series, I opted for his 2015 novel, Aurora. It starts at the end of a generational starship’s 170 year journey to the planet Aurora. Told from the…
Continue reading ➞ Aurora: The Beauty Of Home And The Importance Of Hard Science Fiction
