Noumenon (2017)

A convoy’s centuries-long investigation is staffed by successive generations of clones, chosen to preserve the original crew’s talents. That continuity of DNA does not preserve an identical society or remove the need to teach, maintain and revise. Lostetter moves between generations to show how a single mission accumulates very different meanings. Choose this first Noumenon novel for inherited purpose under social change, with an episodic structure rather than one protagonist accompanying every stage.