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Non-Stop
by Brian W. Aldiss
When you can not travel faster than light, then one of the solutions to this is to set ship's off where the crew live, love, are born and die over several generations, so that the original generation never gets to see the destination and any members that set off on the homeward direction never get to see the original home either. All sounds so amazing, but its sure to go wrong somewhere and that is what happens in Non-Stop. Somehow from leaving the destination planet as a ships crew they have become a tribal nations stalking the corridors of the ship which is now their world, battling 'ponic plants and hunting wild animals that roam the corridors. Mostly they have forgotten that they travel on a ship, and to some the whole idea is almost criminal. But there is always the promise of gold at the end of the rainbow and the forwards is where it is found. The adventure is set around the story of the hero being pushed and pulled towards the forwards - where there is no gold only the truth.
Written back in the 1950's this classic has aged well as the need for technology remains limited and the characters though not as detailed as some longer books are well fleshed, and unusually for the time this book was written includes a strong women character. Non-Stop is a good read that as it title suggests flies at a serious rate of knots towards a conclusion, though written in such a way that Aldiss could have picked one or two of the loose ends if he had wished to. Maybe not the number one classic sci-fi but worth an exploration or two.
Written back in the 1950's this classic has aged well as the need for technology remains limited and the characters though not as detailed as some longer books are well fleshed, and unusually for the time this book was written includes a strong women character. Non-Stop is a good read that as it title suggests flies at a serious rate of knots towards a conclusion, though written in such a way that Aldiss could have picked one or two of the loose ends if he had wished to. Maybe not the number one classic sci-fi but worth an exploration or two.