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Curiosity was discouraged in the Greene tribe. Its members lived out their lives in cramped Quarters, hacking away at the encroaching ponics. As to where they were - that was forgotten.

Roy Complain decides to find out. With the renegade priest

MoreCuriosity was discouraged in the Greene tribe. Its members lived out their lives in cramped Quarters, hacking away at the encroaching ponics. As to where they were - that was forgotten.

Roy Complain decides to find out. With the renegade priest Marapper, he moves into unmapped territory, where they make a series of discoveries which turn their universe upside-down...

Non-Stop is the classic SF novel of discovery and exploration; a brilliant evocation of a familiar setting seen through the eyes of a primitive.

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Lyn

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12 months ago

Non-Stop, Brian Aldiss’ 1958 publication is a story about feral people aboard a generational ship.

The idea of a generational ship – where a sub-light speed vehicle must transverse such a distance in space that the destination will not be reached by the underway crew, but... Read full review
Apatt

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about 1 year ago

Shelves: sci-fi , pre-80s-sf
“Only a technological age could condemn unborn generations to exist in it, as if man were mere protoplasm, without emotion or aspiration.”

That is an implication of a generation ship I never considered. In the absence of a FTL drive, a generation ship is one of the most vi... Read full review
Scott

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8 months ago

Shelves: science-fiction
When Space Holidays Go Wrong could be the alternative title of a great many works of Science Fiction. It seems to me that almost no-one, in any alternate imagined universe, no matter how enlightened or advanced, can arrange an event-free journey from one world to another.... Read full review
Paul Bryant

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about 1 year ago

Shelves: sf-novels-aaargh
I thought well, this can’t be literature because I am having fun reading it, unlike if I was reading say for instance Burroughs, Bellow, Barth, Banville, Bernhard and other people not beginning with B.

It is a story about a generation starship, that is the term. This one c... Read full review
Negativni

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8 months ago

Aldiss je ideju o generacijskom brodu koji putuje bez kontrole vjerovatno dobio čitajući Robert A. Heinleinove novele Universe (1941.) i Common Sense (1941.), koje su kasnije objavljene u obliku romana pod nazivom Orphans of the Sky. No, čini mi se da je u Non-Stop, svoj... Read full review
Jesse

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over 7 years ago

Shelves: sci-fi , 100-must-read-sci-fi-novels
A small note. This is not "Technically" one of the 100 must read sci-fi novels as formulated in the Bloomsbury goodreading guide of that name. I had technical and financial difficulties in obtaining the book said list selected for Brian Aldiss ("Hothouse") and instead loo... Read full review
Jeff

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over 7 years ago

Shelves: scifi
A mad literary experiment gone horribly right, the details of which can't be adumbrated much since the novel contains so many revelations as to be eminently spoilable, Non-Stop parachutes the reader into the heart of ignorance and darkness. The only hero among his jungle... Read full review
Jeremy Adam

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over 6 years ago

I just read this on the beach on Fire Island. I'm a big fan of Brian Aldiss, though I admit he's a spotty writer. The premise--of a generation ship whose crew has forgotten that they are on a starship--is terrific, and it's wonderfully thought-through and very well plotte... Read full review

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Book Details

Paperback, 241 pages
Published July 26th 2005 by The Overlook Press (first published 1958
ISBN
1585676837 (ISBN13: 9781585676835)
Edition Language
English
Original Title
Non-Stop
Literary Awards
Prix Jules Verne, BSFA 50th Anniversary Award

About this Author

33297. ux50 Pseudonyms: Jael Cracken, Peter Pica, John Runciman, C.C. Shackleton, Arch Mendicant, & "Doc" Peristyle.

Brian Wilson Aldiss is one of the most important voices in science fiction writing today. He wrote his first novel while working as a bookseller in Oxford. Shortly afterwards he wrote his first work of science fiction and soon gained international recognition. Adored for his innovative...
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