(Found) - Can't remember the title of an Alastair Reynolds book.

[Sakiel]

Four colony ships set out from Earth, one blew up. The main character is a nut case. He finds a fifth "ship" that is one of the Grub aliens.
It's in the Revelation space universe.

I can't remember the title. Please help.

 

[Sakiel]

Nevermind. It's Chasm City.

 

[Venusian Broon]

It's Chasm City. The Wikipedia entry does not mention what you remember, but trust me.

EDIT: Okay, I see you got it!

 

[Rodders]

Shame. I knew this one.

 

[tachyon]

I had this same problem a bit ago where the generation ship plotline got blurred out of my memory by the Chasm City and Sky's Edge plotlines, I even posted about it here.

(Found) Generation ship, fleet with limited inter-ship contact, alien joins fleet

OK I'm looking for a generation ship novel where there's a fleet of mostly independent ships that are moving together toward the destination (which I forget) Each ship has evolved different cultures/governments and they don't fully trust each other, but still exchange info, resources, & visit...

www.sffchronicles.com

I guess it's appropriate we're having trouble with memory and piecing together the past since those are major themes of the book.