Another early description of a generation ship is in the 1929 essay "The World, the Flesh, & the Devil" by John Desmond Bernal. Bernal's essay was the first publication to reach the public and influence other writers. He wrote about the concept of human evolution and mankind's future in space through methods of living that we now describe as a generation starship, and which could be seen in the generic word "globes".

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