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Non-stop
Brian Aldiss
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Description for Non-stop
Paperback. The first published novel of England's greatest living SF writer Series: S.F. Masterworks. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 44. Weight in Grams: 244.
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.
When Roy Complain loses his wife, he 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. Is their world really a world at all, or just a container moving between worlds...?
NON-STOP is the classic SF novel of discovery and exploration. 'Fascinating' Observer
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Gateway
Condition
New
Series
S.F. Masterworks
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857989984
SKU
9781857989984
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About Brian Aldiss
2025 is the Centenary Year of Brian Aldiss Brian Wilson Aldiss was born in 1925. He was a highly decorated science fiction author who achieved the rare feat of acceptance as a writer of real significance by the literary establishment in his lifetime. As well as his many award-winning novels he has been a hugely important anthologist and editor in the field. He also wrote the pre-eminent history of the genre (with David Wingrove), Trillion Year Spree. He died in 2017 the day after his 92nd birthday.
Reviews for Non-stop
Fascinating reading up to the end and then, when you discover what it was all about, you start again at the beginning
Observer
A splendid piece of imagination ... some really frightening happenings
Yorkshire Post
Our ablest SF writer
Guardian
NON-STOP was one of the first sf novels I read, and it haunts me to this day. Its gritty reality and wonderful list of characters make the setting seem so immediate and palpable, you can almost taste it
Greg Bear Brilliant ... a classic of the field
Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
Observer
A splendid piece of imagination ... some really frightening happenings
Yorkshire Post
Our ablest SF writer
Guardian
NON-STOP was one of the first sf novels I read, and it haunts me to this day. Its gritty reality and wonderful list of characters make the setting seem so immediate and palpable, you can almost taste it
Greg Bear Brilliant ... a classic of the field
Encyclopedia of Science Fiction