List of Generation Ship Novels and Short Stories

I recently checked out a copy of Simone Caroti’s scholarly The Generation Starship In Science Fiction: A Critical History, 1934-2001 (2011) (amazon link) from my library — its appendix contains a wonderful list of generation starship novels and short stories (and the very first non-fiction attestations of this fascinating sci-fi concept).

I highly recommend the book for all aficionados of this particular sci-fi subgenre.  Be warned, as a certain reviewer points out on amazon, it is a work of serious scholarship not a lighthearted romp projecting future developments.  It is not a complete list so I’ve gone ahead and added a few (for example, White’s The Watch Below) and starred them (*).  I’ve also included his chronological divisions.  I’ve supplied links for the few I’ve reviewed.

If you know of any that I haven’t included or were skipped in Caroti’s study let me know.

I have so many more to read!  And plan to make a concerted effort to procure them….

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Genesis (1918-1929)

1) Konstantine Tsiolkovsky. “Buduschchee Zemli i Chelovechestvo” (“Earth’s Future and Manking”). Kaluga, (Russia: Izd. Avtora, 1928). (non-fiction)

2) J. D. Bernal. The World, the Flesh and the Devil (London: Kegan Paul, 1929). (non-fiction/philosophy)

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The Gernsback Age (1934-1940)

Laurence Manning. “The Living Galaxy.” Wonder Stories, (September 1934)

Don Wilcox. “The Voyage That Lasted 600 Years.” Amazing Stories, (October 1940)

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Astounding Science Fiction and the Golden Age of SF (1941-1957)

Robert A. Heinlein. “Universe.” Astounding Science Fiction, (May 1941.) (rereleased in 1963 novel form with “Common Sense” as Orphans of the Sky)

——-”Common Sense.” Astounding Science Fiction, (October 1941)

Arthur C. Clarke. “Rescue Party.” Astounding Science Fiction, (October 1941)

Arthur Sellings. “A Start in Life.” Galaxy Science Fiction, (September 1954)

Leslie R. Shepherd. “Interstellar Flight.” Science-Fiction Plus, (April 1953)

Clifford D. Simak. “Spacebred Generations.” Science-Fiction Plus, (April 1953)

Milton Lesser. The Star Seekers.  (Philadelphia, Pa: John C. Winston Co., 1953)

Frank M. Robinson. “The Oceans Are Wide.” Science Stories, (April 1954)

*James Blish. Cities in Flight series (excluding They Shall Have Stars, 1956).  Earthman Come Home, (Putnam, 1955), The Triumph of Time, (Putnam, 1958), A Life for the Stars, (Putnam, 1962).

E. C. Tubb. The Space-Born.  In The Man Who Japed/The Space-Born. (New York: Ace, 1956)

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From the New Wave to the Edge of Cyberpunk (1957-1979)

John Brunner. “Lungfish.” Science Fantasy, (December 1957)

Chad Oliver. “The Wind Blows Free.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, (July 1957)

Brian W. Aldiss. Non-Stop. (London: Faber and Faber, 1958)

Judith Merril. “Wish upon a Star.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, (December 1958)

Edmund Cooper. Seed of Light. (New York: Ballantine, 1959)

J. T. McIntosh.  200 Years to Christmas. Science Fantasy 12, no. 35 (June 1959)

David Rome. “Bliss.”  Science Adventures, (January 1962)

J. G. Ballard. “Thirteen to Centaurus.” Amazing Stories, (April 1962)

A. E. Van Vogt. Rogue Ship. (New York: Doubleday, 1965). First published ‘Centarus II.’ Astounding Science-Fiction (1947), ‘Rogue Ship.’  Super Science Stories (1950), ‘The Expendables.’ Worlds of Science Fiction (1963)

Samuel R. Delany. The Ballad of Beta-2. In Alpha Yes, Terra No!/The Ballard of Beta-2, (New York: Ace, 1965)

*James White. The Watch Below, (Whiting & Wheaton, 1966)

Poul Anderson. Tau Zero. (New York: Doubleday, 1970).  Fixup “To Outlive Eternity.” (Galaxy Magazine, June/August 1967)

James White. All Judgement Fled. in If, (December 1967-Febuary 1968)

Alexei Panshin. Rite of Passage. (New York: Ace, 1968)

Fritz Leiber. “Ship of Shadows.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, (July 1969).

Harry Harrison. Captive Universe. (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1969)

Roger Dixon. Noah II. (New York: Ace, 1970)

Ben Bova. Exiled from Earth. in Galaxy Magazine, (January/Febuary 1971)

——- Flight of Exiles. (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1972)

——- End of Exile. (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1975)

Arthur C. Clarke. Rendezvous with Rama. (London: Gollancz, 1973)

Harlan Ellison and Edward Bryant. Phoenix Without Ashes.  (New York: Fawcett Gold medal, 1975)

James M. Ward. Metamorphosis Alpha. (Lake Geneva: TSR, 1976) (game)

Kevin O’Donnell, Jr. Mayflies. (New York: Berkley, 1979)

George Zebrowski. Macrolife. (New York: Harper & Row, 1979)

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The Information Revolution and Beyond (1980-2010)

Damien Broderick.  The Dreaming Dragons, (Melbourne: Nostrilia Press, 1980)

Thomas Hubschman.  Space Ark. (New York: Tower Books, 1981)

*Pamela Sargent. Earthseed, (Harper & Row, 1983).

Robert J. Sawyer. Golden Fleece. (New York: Warner Books, 1990)

Frank M. Robinson. The Dark Beyond the Stars. (New York: Tor, 1991)

Gene Wolfe. Nightside the Long Sun. (New York: Tor, 1993)

——- Lake of the Long Sun. (New York: Tor, 1994)

——- Caldé of the Long Sun. (New York: Tor, 1994)

——- Exodus from the Long Sun. (New York: Tor, 1996)

Bruce Sterling. “Taklamakan.” Asimov’s Science Fiction, (October/November 1998)

Rob Grant, Colony. (London: Viking UK, 2000)

*Susan R. Matthews, Colony Fleet. (Eos, 2000).

Richard Paul Russo. Ship of Fouls. (New York: Ace, 2001)

Alastair Reynolds. Chasm City. (London: Gollancz/Orion, 2001)

John Clute. Appleseed. (London: Orbit, 2001)

Ursula K. Le Guin. “Paradises Lost.” in The Birthday of the Wold and Other Stories (New York: Harper Collins, 2002)

Y. Kondo, F. C. Bruhweiler, K. Moore, C. Sheffield (Eds.) Interstellar Travel and Multi-Generation Space Ships. (Burlington, Ont.: apogee, 2003) (non-fiction)

Stephen Baxter. Mayflower II. (Hornsea, UK: PS Publishings, 2004)

Ken MacLeod. Learning the World. (London: Orbit, 2005)

Joe Haldeman. Old Twentieth. (New York: Ace, 2005)

Stephen Baxter. Flood. (London: Gollancz, 2008)

——- Ark. (London: Gollancz, 2009)

Elizabeth Bear. Dust. (New York: Bantam Spectra, 2008)

——- Chill. (New York: Spectra/Ballantine Books, 2010)