Le Papillon des étoiles (The Butterfly of the Stars) is a 2006 novel by French author Bernard Werber.
[1] It describes a generation ship under the form of a long rotating cylinder, with central lightning tube.
Aboard the vessel, 144,000 people leave Earth to travel to an exoplanet.
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