The idea of putting a large number of people in a confined vessel and then using it as an allegory or mirror of society is at least as old as the medieval tradition of the ship of fools and as clichéd as movies like Titanic, and at times writers have even transferred the idea to trains, as in China Miéville’s Railsea or the film Snowpiercer. Whether or not you believe generation starships will ever be a viable concept (an argument most recently engaged by Kim Stanley Robinson in Aurora), the stories are never going to go away: the notion is just too useful in too many ways.
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