Some science fiction writers describe 'planet' ships that are self-contained ecosystems. With a ship so large and a crew so numerous that they may not, over the decades, remember that they are on a ship. Ships where the crew have children and it takes decades, possibly hundreds of years, generations, to get to distant stars.
If you can build a huge, indefinitely self-sustaining planetoid of a ship, why would you need to go anywhere with it? I guess there's that little matter of being sent to the converter... Best to stick around the asteroid belt and mine for raw materials.
Off topic, is it an unwritten rule that the cover art of all science fiction books must directly contradict at least one detail of story?
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