Comment on The problem with sleeper ships
frigidaphelion@lemmy.world 1 month agoThere is an aspect of the plot in Alastair Reynold’s novel Chasm City (part of the Revelation Space series) that also has to do with this concept.
Comment on The problem with sleeper ships
frigidaphelion@lemmy.world 1 month agoThere is an aspect of the plot in Alastair Reynold’s novel Chasm City (part of the Revelation Space series) that also has to do with this concept.
baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
I think it was the planet called …
spoiler
… Sky’s Edge, if I recall correctly. Except the “new tech” was not FTL (not a thing in Revelation Space canon) but the practice of ejecting a significant fraction of colonists and their supplies in order to get a few years “edge” in lead time over other generation ships of a fleet to build up military forces to raid the slower latecomers.