The Voyage that Lasted Six Hundred Years

Wilcox, Don. "The Voyage that Lasted Six Hundred Years." Amazing Oct. 1940. Rpt. Looking Forward. Milton Lesser, ed. New York: Beechhurst, 1953. For other reprints, see the entry for "The Voyage That Lasted 600 Years" on the Internet Speculative Fiction Database, as of 2022 linked here.[1]

The S. F. Ency. entry for DW cites "VLSHY" as "a good GENERATION-STARSHIP tale"; E. Bryant and H. Ellison cite it as the earliest such tale in S. F., "as best as we can trace it" ("Acknowledgment" of Phoenix without Ashes, q.v. this Category, under Bryant). See entry for R. Heinlein's "Universe" for other cross-references.

See Christopher Palmer's "Generation Starships and After" for the assertion that Heinlein credited this story as the first of the generation starship tales (p. 327, n. 1). (Form of the title in the Palmer note, "The Journey that Lasted 600 Years," in Gregory Benford and George Zebrowski, eds. Skylife: Space Habitats in Story and Science; it's "Voyage" on ISFDb.[2]

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