Non-Stop

SF Masterworks 33: The Quarters is a claustrophobic place where numerous tribes eke out a Dark Ages like living, eternally combatting the very fast growing and densely packed vegetation called Ponics, which means they are always on the move, nomadic. Rumours abound about Outsiders, Giants and an ent......more

A quote from The Twinkling of an Eye, Brian Aldiss' autobiography: Faber published the book in 1958. Its publication brought in enough money to enable me to buy my own typewriter. That Swiss Hermes portable and I lived on intimate terms for many a year; I used it as a pillow on more than one occasion......more

the generation ship travels through the vacuum of space, year after year, century after after century, it hurtles on and on and on NON-STOP, where and when will this journey end, and what is this journey even for? the flora is monstrous, these plants have gone wild and turned the ship to jungle, the......more

Well, to be completely honest, I dislike the way this book’s big reveal / premise is discussed so openly, since it is integral to enjoying the impact of the story. In fact, I’m thinking that’s one of the reasons why the title was changed to Non-Stop, so as to not give the game away. And now that I’m......more

When Space Holidays Go Wrong could be the alternative title of a great many works of Science Fiction. It seems to me that almost no-one, in any alternate imagined universe, no matter how enlightened or advanced, can arrange an event-free journey from one world to another. If the ship involved doesn’......more