![]() ![]() And where in the universe is the Starship? Many revelations follow, seen through the eyes of Complain.įIRST EDITION: Faber & Faber, 1958 ITION: Jonathan Cape, 1980 1.įaber & Faber, London, 1958 – reissued 1965, 1967Īs: Starship, Criterion Books, New York, 1959. Where are Roy Complain, Marapper and the rest of the Greene tribe? Well, they are tunnelling through hydroponic entanglements in a vast starship so many human generations have passed that the ship itself has become their world. The author’s first SF novel, immediately well received. ![]() For this is science fiction at its best, a realm where the logical happening is the unexpected one. 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 our for the fabled region called Forwards, they are heading for a series of shocks which will surprise the most hardened reader. 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. ![]()
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