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Deeply memorable for the sequence during which eldritch magic unravels the minds of the protagonists, rendering the heart of their journey into the unknown as a series of discontinuous snapshots. Hinting at the events they battled through, but unable to face them directly, we see the fractured impressions and memories of those who survived to tell the tale. As recurringly the case with Moore, an attempt to explore the boundaries what comics as a medium are capable of.

Reminds me of the discontinuous jump cuts used to great effect (albeit with much reduced scope) in the videogame "Thirty flights of loving".

Fine and dandy, but it ain't no Accelerando.

Life-changingly good. Easily my favorite book of the year. Changed the way I think in several ways.

Engaging, although I find the setting and themes of his other stuff (Blindsight, Freeze Frame Revolution, The Things (!)) have more immediate appeal for me.

Smashing science fiction adventure, rising above the humdrum for me with the exploration of the harsh theme that any interstellar generation colony ship would be such a massive expenditure of resources that it would be equipped to occupy habitable planets at its destination no matter what they found when they got there - including existing intelligent life.