short-cut to an early 'Generation Ship' story

[a425couple]

OK, I long ago read "Seed of Light" by Edmund Cooper.
Also Heinlein's "Orphans in the Sky".
And am awaiting delivery of Clarke's "Rendezvous with Rama".

Here is a cite, or shortcut, to one of the very first generation ship
stories.
http://amazingstoriesmag.com/articles/voyage-lasted-600-years/

Don Wilcox's "The Voyage that Lasted 600 Years"
( Amazing , October 1940) was the first of dozens of
generation-ship stories,

[peterw...@hotmail.com]

Will Jenkins' (writing as Murray Leinster) novella _Proxima Centuri_ was a few years earlier.

Peter Wezeman
anti-social Darwinist

[Robert A. Woodward]

In article
<1e38b5a8-9002-434d...@googlegroups.com>,

But that story didn't have a generation ship (8 years is about 1/3
a generation after all).

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[Mike Dworetsky]

"The Star Seekers" by Milton Lester is another, from the early 1950s
(Winston SF series).

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Mike Dworetsky

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[Butch Malahide]

You skipped over Heinlein's "Universe" from 1941, and maybe others.

[Mike Dworetsky]

"Universe" is Part One of "Orphans of the Sky". And yes, there are lots of
generation-ship stories.