Re: Drie: The attraction of the generation ship

wdstarr@xxxxxxxxx (William December Starr) wrote in
news:flki3s$o1h$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

It was a small plot point somewhere in Gene Wolfe's Book of the
New Sun tetralogy -- Jonas, a former spaceman[*1] who traveled
with Sevarian for a while, had barely survived the crash when
his long-lost ship returned to Earth (sorry, Urth) and tried to
execute the mandatory endgame of its mission and land only to
discover that nobody'd been maintaining the ground-based
facilities that it needed for that maneuver. (Oops.)

*1: For some value of that word.


You've got to hand it to him, he certainly made a good fist of a sticky
situation.
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