Generationship Stories

In a starless generational ship where population control is just another menial desk job, a bureaucratic assassin discovers his own name on the termination docket-and realizes the real horror isn't the killing, but the paperwork. Welcome to the Ouroboros. The ceilings are 1.9 meters high, the recycled air tastes like six centuries of accumulated breath, and the Grand Actuary demands absolute equilibrium. Matter is reallocated, never wasted. The dead feed the living. HS-01-who named himself Heavy Strike in a desperate bid for autonomy-is a Demographic Adjustment Clerk. He isn't a glamorous, black-clad operative. He's an underpaid, overworked municipal employee who takes the elevator to the Outer Rings, administers standard-issue lethal sedatives to citizens who have exceeded their caloric quotas, and files Form 81-C before his lunch break. He manages the crushing guilt of his job with a simple mantra: At least I chose to be here. But the Ouroboros is a machine, and machines make errors. When HS-01's own designation appears on his daily termination docket, his carefully constructed coping mechanisms begin to fracture. Forced to navigate the very bureaucratic nightmare he helps enforce, HS-01 is pushed to the brink by a terrifyingly efficient new hire, a looming union strike over hazard pay, and the arrival of a shadowy corporate auditor with an archaic datapad and a terrifying agenda. As his particle visor glitches and his cybernetic systems buckle under the weight of his own complicity, HS-01 must decide if he is truly free to fight the system-or if his rebellion is just another line of code written by the architects who abandoned them. The Demographic Adjustment Clerk is a bleak, satirical, and deeply unsettling sci-fi descent into the banality of evil. in case I am not reaching the right people by posting on Wattpad, I would also upload this story on Royal Road under the name of asiankitchendweller. There might be more stuff I would do there, so stay tuned!

Forty-eight years ago, the ship had departed Earth on a two hundred year voyage to 82 Eridani. "Our eyes will never gaze upon the new world," the original crew had told their children, "but we will be the giants upon whose shoulders those who see it, will stand." Born onto a ship they never boarded, raised in a prison they can never escape, and destined to bequeath that fate to their own children, "the talk" becomes a touchstone moment of both childhood, and of fatherhood.

Get ready, 'troopers, 'cause @jinnis finally gets a TK Special Edition dedicated just to them! Ten of her favourite stories she's written over the years, plus an exclusive new interview. Come indulge in a Bottle of Jinn!

Goal: Save humanity, no biggie. Olivia, a precocious fourteen year old girl, narrates the trials of humanity as it leaves the solar system, fleeing an Earth decimated by the Nuclear Apocalypse.

The ITS Santa Maria is a generation ship in the truest sense-her colonial mission to the alluringly habitable TRAPPIST-1 system will span several. Her crew, though, original and descendent both, need not necessarily accept their lot to live and die between the stars. Greased elbows and palms tend to lubricate a path toward longevity. Wealth aboard Santa Maria is measured not in dollars and cents, but in Minutes and Seconds. Work, favors, and shrewdness are paid in Minutes-and Minutes are spent in Suspension. Suspension Pods are scarce, and where there is scarcity, there is competition. Which ancient vices will that competition dredge from beneath the genteel veneer of our spacefaring future? To what terrible lengths will human beings go for a breath of fresh air? Available now in digital, paperback, hardcover, and audio formats: https://www.amazon.com/At-Pace-Man-Devyn-Regueira-ebook/dp/B08QDPMF2W

Lyra dreams of a world she's never seen. There are doubts plaguing her thoughts, dogging her day to day duties aboard the ship carrying the last of the human race. Will the truth set her free or be her worst nightmare? **Top 10 Project Constellation finalist**

Aboard Earth's very first generation ship, Dan marvelled again at this miracle of modern technology. Complete with seeds, tools, survival kits, everything they would need to establish themselves on a new world; Tabula Rasa was humanity's last hope. Earth was no longer habitable... My entry for the Planet Or Plastic competition

It's that time, 'troopers... Get your ticket and board the Good Ship @Ooorah ... Join us as we launch and head towards a distant star system! It's gonna' take hundreds of years to get there so none of us will ever see it, let alone set foot upon any of its worlds but our descendants will... This one's for them!

That's right, he's back. One of #TeamOoorah 's founding members has returned with another special collection of ten more Sci-Fi tales with which he intends to tickle and tantalise your temporal lobes, or something...

In this latest @Ooorah anthology, we team up with Wattpad's own @WattpadPunkFiction. Inspired by a round theme from our Wattpad-famous SmackDowns, sci-fi writers will be challenged to craft a kickass story with one cardinal rule: They must first randomly generate and then merge a -Punk sub-genre and a non-Punk sub-genre. From now on we shall call this noble goal... MergePunk!

Pete is the captain of a generation ship that has traveled the lightyears from ruined earth to its destination system. He enjoys the privileges of his rank, unwilling to risk them by attempting a landing on the planet they have been orbiting for years. Ralph, his younger brother, has spent his life in Pete's shadow, tinkering with the half-forgotten technology of their starship. And he is eying the planet below them with longing. He decides that it is time to start the descent. The starship's name is Last Hope. The final steps of its journey and the first steps on new soil are a deadly dance to the tune of a conflict between the two brothers. -------- Cover composed using art by PLRANG ART and Dean Drobot under license from shutterstock.com

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After generations, the spaceship Night has arrived at its destiny and orbits a planet to be settled. The passengers prepare to disembark. A short tale inspired by @jinnis' story "Free me!". Check out her great writing. (Bemerkung: Das Buch gibt es auch in Deutsch, "Der Letzte der 1000")

A New World Awaits... But at What Cost? Sixteen-year-old Max has only known Earth as a history lesson-a planet devastated by war and climate collapse. Like the rest of the passengers aboard the Odyssey Ark II, his destiny is to sleep for decades in a hibernation pod, waking only for a one-year shift to keep the ship operational on its centuries-long journey to a distant star. But when Max awakens, something feels off. As he uncovers secrets buried deep within the ship, Max begins to question everything he's been taught about the mission, the ship's purpose, and even his place in society. With time running out and the truth more dangerous than he could have imagined, Max must decide: follow the rules, or risk everything to find out exactly what is happening on board? Perfect for fans of science-fiction and adventure, this gripping sci-fi adventure explores hope, resilience, and the fight for a better tomorrow.

Short and sweet, because that's how some of us like it... 11 fantastic short stories from 10 equally as fantastic SFers. Enjoy the Ooorah out of it, 'troopers!

Follow the massive and powerful Ship Oathbound and its AI-integrated caretaker, alongside the main character Ethan, as they embark on a colonisation mission that doesn't go so well.