We’ve heard this before right? A civilisation happily doing it’s thing unaware
that is in fact doing it’s thing not on a planet but on a generation ship on
its way to the stars. My personal favourite example of this theme is Gene
Wolfe’s Book of the Long
Sun series.
That said, this is a compentently written book and I enjoyed the ironic tone of the
narrative of the principal character. It’s no masterwork, and doesn’t have the
depth of the “Book of the long sun,” but it’s worth a read.
The ending leaves some loose ends which made me wonder if a sequel was planned
and indeed amazon.co.uk lists Mothership Awakening
which appears to have been published in 2005 but which seems to be
unavailable.