Skinship offers an interesting premise inside a conventional science fiction story. The Skinship is a generation starship traveling to a far away planet, leaving a desolate Earth. The story starts off following Applewhite, an artificial person and First Navigator of the skinship. Applewhite's purpose is to ensure the ship navigates safely to its destination. After many generations, the ship is closing in on its target and the ship's residents are becoming anxious. A plot is hatched against Applewhite.

The plot of this novel is compelling and has great potential, unfortunately, the story doesn't quite pull off the execution. Applewhite is an interesting character but we stop following his viewpoint about a quarter through the novel, and jump into the view of characters who come and go, just as quickly as we meet them. The characters all seem to have an unhealthy fascination with alcohol, which didn't add anything to the story. The pacing is quite slow for such a short novel, and gets boring at times.