Hurricane Moon

In the late twenty-first century, earth is wracked by political and ecological crises, and the Aeon Foundation launches a starship to find a new world and found a new civilisation, with all the advances of science and without the mistakes made on earth. Catharin Gault is the idealistic astronaut-physician in Aeon's primary crew. Along with the rest of the crew and passenger-colonists, she goes into stasis for the long journey across the stars, their collective fate surrendered to the ship's artificial intelligence. But things go amiss even before the new world's beginning...