The Generations of Hope is the prequel to the Generations Trilogy. It is the story of the generation starship Hope and it's mission to Proxima Centauri to establish a colony to ensure the continuance of the human race. The mission will take two centuries to complete. Six generations will live and die before the mission is accomplished and Hope returns to Earth. But Earth has changed dramatically during those two hundred years and Hope's sixth generation crew desperately needs to make contact with Earth if they are to survive.