Dave Snowdon

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 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.