Brian W. Aldiss
Paperback | Pages: 241 pages Rating: 3.87 | 5378 Users | 301 Reviews
Identify Based On Books Non-Stop
| Title | : | Non-Stop |
| Author | : | Brian W. Aldiss |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 241 pages |
| Published | : | July 26th 2005 by Harry N. Abrams (first published 1958) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction |
Narrative Concering Books Non-Stop
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 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.
Details Books Supposing Non-Stop
| Original Title: | Non-Stop |
| ISBN: | 1585676837 (ISBN13: 9781585676835) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | British Science Fiction Association Award for 50th Anniversary Award Best Novel of 1958 (2007), Prix Jules Verne (1977) |
Rating Based On Books Non-Stop
Ratings: 3.87 From 5378 Users | 301 ReviewsNotice Based On Books Non-Stop
SF Masterworks 33: The Quarters is a claustrophobic place where tribes eke out a Dark Ages like living, eternally combatting the very fast growing and densely packed vegetation called Ponics. But there is talk of Outsiders, Giants and another people, the Forwards! Hunter Ray Complain gets caught up in an exhibition to find out the truth about Quarters and the rest of the planet!My first ever novel by Aldiss (I've read a few of his short, I believe), and what a cracker. The initial detailedNon-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 a second or later generation has been the stuff of fine science fiction for decades. Methuselah's Children and Orphans of the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein are two examples and Poul Andersons Tau Zero is a similar variation. Writers
This isn't a book. It's an Ur-book, a book that comes before the books that you know. The thing which creates a pattern. Actually, I don't know that that's really the case, but that's what it feels like, as with all the Brian Aldiss books that I've read: he creates not just worlds, but patterns for worlds. Here, the interstellar generation ship that nobody really knows is a generation ship. In the end, the whole plot is an excuse to explore the setting--and the ways it can change. But the
This was the first novel published by Brian Aldiss, titled Non-Stop in his native Britain. The US title, Starship, rather gives away the surprise of the first section of the book, and the many reviews available give away most of the rest. Fortunately I encountered neither sources before reading, and rather enjoyed this story.The main character is a rough-and-ready sort who adapts quite well to the situations he encounters. Halfway through he meets an excellent female character, well written and
4.5A generation ship gone catastrophically wrong! On the whole I really enjoyed this book. One plot point in particular (rats, rabbits, and moths) was left mostly unexplained and seemed unnecessary to the main story, but didn't detract too much from my overall enjoyment.
Always love a good twist in the end!
Read for the SF Masterworks Reading Challenge and the Science Fiction Masterworks Book Club.This was an extremely interesting book. A generation ship suffers a major plague, and the resulting society changes, to the point where the descendants of the original crew lack the technology to even be certain that they're on a ship; or, if they do realize this, they think that all worlds are ships. The protagonist, Roy Complain, is dissatisfied with his simple hunter's existence in the forests of the
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