 If you had to recommend this reading to someone else, of the following options who do you think would most enjoy it?
He said, with a touch of tolerant amusement, "What did you think might have happened to Earth? "Our visit to Procyon drew a blank. If success comes there, a century will have passed before we can return to Earth; friends, relatives, all the generation that launched the Quest ships will be long since dead. "It makes no difference, of course; we cannot betray the plan.... Perhaps our effort will prove as futile as pyramid-building, less practical than orgies of slaughter to reduce pressure.... Now we turn back along a curve that will take us past many more stars and stellar systems—but hope is small that any of those will prove a home for man, as have none of the thousands of stars examined already.
 A sci-fi nerd who loves intense and tragic stories
 A sci-fi nerd who loves discovery of alien species and new planets as major tropes  A sci-fi nerd who loves intense and tragic stories  A commercial airplane pilot who wishes they were an astronaut  A sci-fi nerd who loves stories about family and happy endings