NON-STOP
by Brian Aldiss
I wish I’d written this ...
... because had I done so, I would be considered one of the great SF authors!
If I'd read this in my youth, it would undoubtedly have become one of those novels I could never forget (like Aldiss’s HOTHOUSE, which I’m scared to re-read in case it disappoints). Unfortunately, though it stood on my shelves for years, I never got around to it. Now, decades later, having tracked down the same edition owned back in the day, I’ve finally ticked it off the list … and yup, I loved it. I’m too wizened, baggy and grumpy to have my imagination captured the way it could be during my adolescence but this came close to achieving that magic. I really enjoyed the pace and the steady unfolding of the plot. A classic!
From the publisher
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.
