Rivers Solomon – Two Nerds Sitting On A Couch

Generation Ships in Film

Posted by Ceridwen Posted on September 27, 2021 3 Comments

Posted in books, futures, movies, podcasts, space Tagged An Unkindness of Ghosts, Aniara, Ascension, Aurora, generation ships, Kim Stanley Robinson, Passengers, Rivers Solomon, Snowpiercer, Solaris, Stanislaw Lem, Titan A.E., Voyagers, WALL-E

A red circle sits slightly off center on a black background. White lines radiate from the red circle. A small, narrow spaceship intersects the white lines in the lower left, which distends them a little.

Two Nerds sat down to watched the recent film Voyagers with some excitement, because there are a vanishingly small number of actual generation ships in film. There are oodles of long haul ships, like the Nostromo, where its crew and…