Missing title of this sci-fi story about divergent evolution on gen ship

March 23, 2018 6:49 AM

I read a sci-fi story that probably came out within the last 10 years about the challenges of effective immortality and divergent evolution on a generation ship, with some people preferring to die rather than use the new tech to become immortal. The ship eventually meets other humans, only to discover that they are now incredibly advanced to the point of being barely human, and now the immortal-gen-ship generation is faced with the same quandary as the generation who chose to die off at the start of the story. What is the name of this story?
posted by flibbertigibbet to Media & Arts (4 answers total)

Best answer: That was in Ken Liu's Paper Menagerie collection I'm pretty sure.
posted by daisystomper at 7:42 AM on March 23, 2018

Don't remember which one, though!
posted by daisystomper at 7:42 AM on March 23, 2018

Response by poster: It's "The Waves"! I searched through every multi-author anthology I read, but didn't think to look into any of the single-author ones.
posted by flibbertigibbet at 7:56 AM on March 23, 2018

Sounds a lot like The Island by peter watts.
posted by Oktober at 7:57 AM on March 23, 2018