Non-Stop - Brian W. Aldiss [0]
‘A brilliant treatment of the generation starship and also the theme of conceptual breakthrough; it has become accepted as a classic of the field.’ The Enclyclopedia of Science Fiction
‘Non-Stop offers a number of conventional sf pleasures, but it does more . . . it refuses to resolve itself into a happy, wish-fulfilling ending. The characters discover that they are the victims of a cosmic joke: ironies abound, the struggle goes on’ DAVID PRINGLE, Science Ficton: The 100 Best Novels
ALSO BY BRIAN ALDISS
Novels
The Brightfount Diaries (1955)
Non-Stop (1958)
Bow Down to Nul (1960)
The Primal Urge (1961)
The Male Response (1961)
Hothouse (1962)
The Dark Light Years (1964)
Greybeard (1964)
Earthworks (1965)
An Age (1967)
Report on Probability A (1968)
Barefoot in the Head: A European Fantasia (1969)
The Hand-Reared Boy (1970)
A Soldier Erect (1971)
Frankenstein Unbound (1973)
The Eighty Minute Hour: A Space Opera (1974)
The Malacia Tapestry (1976)
Brothers of the Head (1977)
A Rude Awakening (1978)
Enemies of the System: A Tale of Homo Uniformis (1978)
Moreau’s Other Island (1980)
Life in the West (1980)
Helliconia Spring (1982)
Helliconia Summer (1983)
Helliconia Winter (1985)
The Year Before Yesterday (1987)
Ruins (1987)
Forgotten Life (1988)
Dracula Unbound (1991)
Remembrance Day (1993)
Somewhere East of Life (1994)
The Secret of This Book (1995)
Short Story Collections
Space, Time and Nathaniel (Presciences) (1957)
No Time Like Tomorrow (1959)
The Canopy of Time (1959)
Galaxies Like Grains of Sand (1960)
The Airs of Earth (1963)
Best Science Fiction Stories of Brian W. Aldiss (1965)
The Saliva Tree and Other Strange Growths (1966)
Intangible Inc. (1969)
The Moment of Eclipse (1970)
The Book of Brian Aldiss (1972)
Last Orders and Other Stories (1977)
New Arrivals, Old Encounters (1979)
Seasons in Flight (1984)
The Magic of the Past (1987)
Best SF Stories of Brian W. Aldiss (1988)
Science Fiction Blues (1988)
A Romance of the Equator: Best Fantasy Stories (1989)
A Tupelov Too Far (1994)
Common Clay (1996)
Non Fiction
The Shape of Further Things (1970)
Billion Year Spree (1973)
Science Fiction Art (1975)
Science Fiction Art (1976)
Science Fiction as Science Fiction (1978)
This World and Nearer Ones (1979)
The Pale Shadow of Science (1985)
. . . And The Lurid Glare of the Comet (1986)
Trillion Year Spree (1986)
Bury My Heart at W.H. Smith’s: A Writing Life (1990)
The Detached Retina (1995)
The Twinkling of an Eye or My Life as an Englishman (1998)
As Editor:
Penguin Science Fiction (1961)
Best Fantasy Stories (1962)
More Penguin Science Fiction (1963)
Yet More Penguin Science Fiction (1964)
Nebula Award Stories II (1967) with Harry Harrison
Venus (1968) with Harry Harrison
The Years Best Science Fiction Series (1–9) (1968–1976) with Harry Harrison
The Astounding-Analogy Reader (Vols 1 and 2) (1972–3) with Harry Harrison
Space Opera (1974)
Space Odysseys (1975)
Evil Earths (1975)
Decade: The 1940s (1975)
Hell’s Carotographers (1975)
Galactic Empires (1976)
Decade: The 1950s (1976)
Decade: The 1960s (1977)
Perilous Planets (1978)
The Penguin World Omnibus of Science Fiction (1986) with Sam J. Lundwall
The Book of Mini Sagas I (1985)
The Book of Mini Sagas II (1988)
In affectionate memory of
TED CARNELL
Editor of New Worlds and Science Fantasy and starter of Non-Stop
It is safer for a novelist to choose as his
subject something he feels about than
something he knows about.
L. P. HARTLEY
For this new edition of an old favourite, I have made some alterations here and there. These occur on forty-eight pages. The adventure remains the same; the characters remain the same; the theme of an idea gobbling up real life remains the same. Only a few words have been changed.
But of course words make all the difference.