Non-Stop

By: Brian W. Aldiss

Narrated by: Jonathan Johns

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.

©1987 Brian W. Aldiss (P)2024 Tantor

Critic reviews

"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

Brilliant

How have I never heard of Brian Aldiss before??? What an epic story… it’s perfect. I don’t have that much time to write a review. Why does Amazon make me write a super long review just to say something nice.

Bad take on the generation ship conceit.

failed to hold my attention. pretty standard story about a people on a generation ship that have forgotten they are on a ship.