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Librarian's Note: Alternate-cover edition for ISBN 1857989988 / 9781857989984
Here is an adventure story complete with such traditional ingredients as a lost tribe, sinister traces of a mighty former civilisation, and a hero, Roy Complain, who, purged by peril, comes eventually to find himself. But these classic ingredients have undergone a romantic metamorphosis: no tribe has ever been more thoroughly lost than the Greene tribe, and when Roy Complain and Priest Marapper set out for the fabled region called Forwards, they are heading for a series of shocks which will surprise the most hardened reader. For this is science fiction at its best, a realm where the logical happening is the unexpected one.
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.
"A splendid piece of imagination...some really frightening happenings." - YORKSHIRE POST
"Fascinating reading up to the end, and ten, when you discover what it was all about, you start again at the beginning." - OBSERVER
"Brilliant... a classic of the field." - ENCYCLOPDEIA OF SCIENCE FICTION
