eBook - ePub

Non-Stop

Name: Non-Stop
ISBN: 9781504064040

Brian W. Aldiss,

190 pages
English
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eBook - ePub

Non-Stop

Brian W. Aldiss,

About this book

A "brilliant . . . classic of the field" generation ship adventure from the Golden Age of Science Fiction by the author of the Helliconia Trilogy ( Encyclopedia of Science Fiction).

Non-Stop is Grand Master of Science Fiction and Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author Brian W. Aldiss's debut novel. Written in response to Robert Heinlein's Orphans of the Sky and published in the late 1950s, it is set in a primitive world, home to tribes of inhabitants who endure their harsh and stunted lives in a maze of corridors. Though legends exist that they're actually on a ship traveling through the universe, no one really believes it. But that conviction doesn't stop a group of people from embarking on a mission to find the rumored "Forwards" section and its control room. Through a tangled, hydroponic jungle, they'll encounter telepathic animals, giants, outcasts, and mutants in an epic race to uncover the truth—and survive . . .

"A breakneck ride filled with some truly disturbing and chaotic imagery . . . Aldiss' world is visceral and powerful." — Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations

"Worth reading, and quite a significant contribution to the long SF history of generation ship novels." —SF Site

Praise for Brian W. Aldiss

"A major figure in world SF . . . Whatever else Aldiss may be, predictable he is not." — The Guardian

"One of the most influential—and one of the best—SF writers Britain has ever produced." —Iain M. Banks, award-winning author of the Culture series

"One of the most important SF writers of the 20th century." — Publishers Weekly

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