Fantasy/Horror/Scifi Book Club - Generations

Hello all

We had a successful book club meeting on the theme of Tyrants on 28 May (picture attached of some of the books read). For June’s meeting we have decided on the theme of “Generations”.

So this will be genre fiction spanning generations be it parent/child or ancestors/descendents, or may not even be familial relations but different groups of people over a period of time.
Examples could include multi-generational ships to a far off colony. Or perhaps time travel/immortality where the protagonist remains the same but experiences the passage of time in the world and people around them. Or stories where the role of protagonist is passed from parent to child etc

As always you are free to read whatever you wish however strictly or loosely it fits the theme, and come and tell us about it on the day and whether you’d recommend it or not.

However, below are some EXAMPLES (you are not limited to them) to set the scene and give ideas to anyone who isn’t sure of what to read.

• Dune, by Frank Herbert (1965) - The first in the Dune series, set 10,000 years from now when noble houses run planets, the series covers several generations of House Atreides who govern the desert world of Arrakis.
• Blackwater, by Michael McDowell (1983) - A sweeping Southern Gothic saga follows the wealthy Caskey family over 50 years, beginning in 1919, following their supernatural encounter with a woman rescued from a flood.
• Daggerspell, by Katharine Kerr (1986) - The first book in the Deverry Cycle, a celtic-inspired high fantasy spanning thousands of years in which a wizard is cursed to live until he sets right a former wrong. Those he’s wronged are constantly reborn across generations “in a web of karmic debt”.
• Game of Thrones, by George R Martin (1996) - The first volume in A Song of Ice and Fire series about noble houses fighting in the fictional land of Westeros. Throughout the series people die and the war passes onto their children to continue (often very young children).
• House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds (2008) - A space opera following "lineages" of clones of a single family who travel across the galaxy. Spanning millions of years it charts the rise and fall of galactic empires.
• The Passage, by Justin Cronin (2010) - The first in a post-apocalyptic horror trilogy in which a botched government experiment turns most of humanity into vampires. The narrative spans hundreds of years, following multiple generations of survivors.
• Children of Time, by Adrian Tchaikovsky (2015) - The first in a series although the first book is self contained, which charts the evolution of uplifted spiders on a colony world across generations. Also in space, a human colony ship heading to the world has both specialists (e.g. engineers) who are woken from cryo-sleep every few decades when they are needed, meeting the descendents of the original crew who didn’t go into cryo.
• Jade City, by Fonda Lee (2017) - First of the Green Bone Saga, an urban fantasy series blending martial arts and crime drama, gollowing the Kaul family leading a magical mob syndicate across several generations.
• The Girl from Rawblood by Catriona Ward (2017) - Winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel, A gothic horror novel tracking the Villarca family across generations as they are hunted by an ancient entity called "Her".
• Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez (2019) - A decades-spanning horror tracking a father and son bound to a terrifying occult society known as "The Order" in Argentina, where the father tries to save his son from a generational curse.