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My #review for Non-Stop by Brian W. Aldiss

A fantastic classic of #ScienceFiction that introduced many concepts to the generation ship plot. Despite its age (published on 1958!) I still found it very interesting and entertaining, I recommend reading it :P

Day 40 of #100DaysToOffload

https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/non-stop

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Non-Stop

My review for the first novel by Brian W.Aldiss, a sci-fi classic about a generation ship where its inhabitants have lost knowledge from the past, dividing into warring tribes and unaware of their reality, and how the truth unveils.

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Vladimir

@joel

I'm sure you aware of, but just in case:

https://sciencefictionruminations.com/sci-fi-article-index/list-of-generation-ship-novels-and-short-stories/

Myself, I really like the topic and really liked a rather recent book, KSR's "Aurora". A few thoughts were jotted here:

https://www.talibov.xyz/posts/aurora/

List of Generation Ship Science Fiction Novels/Short Stories

I recently checked out a copy of Simone Caroti’s scholarly The Generation Starship In Science Fiction: A Critical History, 1934-2001 (2011) (amazon link) from my library — its appendix co…

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Joel

19h ago

@contaminase that list is amazing, I am rather interested on the novel you shared, but also in James Blish' "Cities in Flight" series, I really found his book Black Easter to be very thought provoking, plenty of other interesting titles though, bookmarked!