Starship Galatea

What happens to the once and future creatures who escaped the death of Planet Ulro and embarked on a generational star-ship to find a new home in the galaxy? Ishmael Kahn, historian and a nineth-generation survivor, tells the story of problematic collective life on this sacred and profane time machine. Two and a half centuries after its launch; anxiety, boredom, and despair provide clues to an unrealized vision of human being. The tensions of everyday life in space feed competition between an au