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# Wordplay #6: History, generation ships, and suspension pods
- URL: https://www.andrewliptak.com/wordplay-generation-ships-suspension-pods-science-fiction-writing-storytelling/
- Published: 2019-01-07T16:01:10.000Z
- Updated: 2025-09-25T13:27:06.000Z
- Author: Andrew Liptak

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Issue #6 of Wordplay is now up online! It’s the first issue of the year, so I’m using the opportunity to talk a little about what my reading plans are for the year, and what I’m excited to get to in the coming months. I also look at a trope that I’ve noticed in a couple of books lately: the use of suspension pods to allow characters to cover large swaths of time, notably in Cixin Liu’s *The Dark Forest* and Adrian Tchaikovsky’s *Children of Time*.

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