But, for a more comprehensive list, see here.
However, neither Poul Anderson's Tau Zero not James Blish's Cities In Flight is a generation ship story. The first has a single generation with time dilation and the second has a single generation with antiagathics and FTL.
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Kaor, Paul!
But I think Blish's Flying Cities CAN be called generation ships (or generation space cities?). Not everyone in them gets the antiagathics treatments, after all. Which means people would being born and dying in them in the normal way. And my recollection is that the Flying Cities wandered known space for generations.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
But we don't see those generations or indeed the general population of the city, just half a dozen decision-makers.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
True, but what I wrote above was the general BACKGROUND of the Flying Cities.
Btw, the Interludes and the final story of Anderson's TALES OF THE FLYING MOUNTAINS are set on a terraformed asteroid turned into a generation ship.
Ad astra! Sean
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