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Non-Stop - Brian W. Aldiss

By Brian W. Aldiss

Release Date: 2020-10-13

Genre: Adventure Sci-Fi

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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

Non-Stop - Brian W. Aldiss

By Brian W. Aldiss

Release Date: 2020-10-13

Genre: Adventure Sci-Fi

4 (24 ratings)
Read Download
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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Helliconia Spring

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Galaxies Like Grains of Sand

Dracula Unbound

The Saliva Tree

Greybeard

The Dark Light Years

Helliconia Summer

Frankenstein Unbound

Helliconia Winter

Report on Probability A

The Complete Short Stories: The 1960s

Starswarm

Enemies of the System

Finches of Mars

The Malacia Tapestry

White Mars; or, The Mind Set Free

The Complete Short Stories: The 1950s

Earthworks

Barefoot in the Head

Space, Time, and Nathaniel

An Island Called Moreau

The Squire Quartet

Cryptozoic!

Super-State

Life in the West

Forgotten Life

The Primal Urge

Somewhere East of Life

The Eighty-Minute Hour

Supertoys che durano tutta l'estate (Urania)

The Shape of Further Things

Remembrance Day

Man in His Time

No Time Like Tomorrow

New Arrivals, Old Encounters

Science Fiction Blues

Ruins

Weißer Mars

Der Sternenschwarm

13 SHADOWS, Band 5: DREIZEHN SCHATTEN

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Helliconia: Winter

Harm

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Cultural Breaks

Graubart

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