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Non-StopBrian W. Aldiss
Sci-FiLiterary

Non-Stop

252 pagesFirst published 19586 editions
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Roy Complain lives in a culturally-primitive tribe in which curiosity is discouraged and life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short. With a small group, he leaves his home and ventures into uncharted territory. The consequent discoveries will change his perception of the entire universe. Complain's small tribe roam nomadically through corridors overrun by vegetation. After his wife is kidnapped, a tribal priest named Marapper encourages Complain to join a furtive expedition into the unexplored corridors. It is Marapper's belief that they are all living on board a moving spacecraft and…

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Editions

6 in Spinefolk
FormatPublisherYearPagesISBN
EditionOverlook Press20051829781585676835
EditionMillennium20002729781857989984
EditionPenguin19932729780140173536
PaperbackCarroll & Graf Pub19892699780881844924
PaperbackGrafton19872699780586068175
EditionFaber19582529780330246385
FictionDiscoveries in geographySpace shipsFiction in EnglishScience fictionFiction, science fiction, general