Raft

This is the second Stephen Baxter novel I've read. I really enjoyed The Thousand Earths. This one, not so much. Some neat ideas but I never felt engaged in the story. It mostly follows the generation ship tropes and cliches with some pretty weird stuff thrown. The Raft isn't a generation ship but it functions like one for all intents and purposes. It just felt like it didn't do those tropes very well. And the weird bits seemed thrown in just to be weird.

This was one of Baxter's earliest works so I'm not dissuaded from giving him another shot down the road.