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Author Notes

Ark Adrift

This has several inspirations. The most obvious are:

• Aniara, by Harry Martinson. An epic about a ship, hopelessly adrift in space, slowly breaking down.
• Druuna, by Paolo Serpieri. A comic about a space arc which doesn't know it is a spaceship. It also has a heavy focus on the protagonist.
• Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C Clarke. Cylindrical space ark, what more is there to say?
• The Second Coming, Yeats, specifcially the line "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold"
• The New Sun and The Long Sun series by Gene Wolfe. Similar themes.

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