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''Non-Stop'' is a classic 1958 science fiction novel by Brian Aldiss. The main character, Roy Complain, is a hunter in a primitive jungle tribe. He joins the priest Henry Marapper and others on a quest to travel to the end of their world, which Complain has trouble believing is really a ship in emptiness like Marapper says. Marapper has found a map of the ship and is trying to find the control room
The book subverts reader expectations, providing many surprises even - in some cases even especially - to fans of the genre
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* [[Alien Kudzu]]: The "ponics" that fill the ship corridors are mutated plants that grow and spread extremely fast. They may also be intelligent, but it's not like anyone can talk with them.
* [[All Hail the Great God Mickey]]: The local religion is centered around very misunderstood psychoanalytic concepts. Subconsciousness is the devil figure. and so on. Subverted though, as {{spoiler|the religion was started by a madman shortly before everything fell apart.}}
* [[Always Save the Girl]]: Notably averted. {{spoiler|Roy Complains's wife Gwenny is abducted early on in the story. Nothing is ever done about that, and before too long she is forgotten about entirely.}}
* [[Apocalyptic Log]]: The old captain's diary.
* [[Artificial Gravity]]: Can be best seen by its absence in the places where the gravity-generating machinery has broken down.
* [[Benevolent Precursors]]: You have to admit that the ship was built impressively well. It was also a nice thing to destroy all the more destructive weapons onboard before everything completely fell apart. {{spoiler|Hiding the control room and destroying the control panels might not sound so nice, but it successfully kept the ship on its original course back to Earth.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Earth All Along]]: Or rather, Earth's orbit all along. The ship had already made its return trip well before the beginning of the story.}}
* [[Frickin' Laser Beams]]: The scars of old battles are still visible in certain places.
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* [[Heroic Lineage]]: Gregg Complain finds a document that shows that he is descended from the ship's ancient captain, Gregory Complain.
* [[Lost Technology]]: Everywhere. The ceiling lights and the doors that are opened by keycards are prominent examples.
* [[Low Culture, High Tech]]: Lost technology is everywhere, but Greene Tribe is culturally about early neolithic. The Forwarders have more social structure and are fully settled farmers.
* [[Mutants]]: The ship is full of them. {{spoiler|Every living thing there has been mutated except the outside researchers, who are normal humans.}}
* [[Naming Your Colony World]]: New Earth, the planet the ship was sent to colonize.
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* [[The Plague]]: In the backstory.
* [[Ragnarok Proofing]]: The ship was made to last. Partially subverted though, as {{spoiler|the ship has actually been getting outside maintenance lately.}}
* [[Self-Destruct Mechanism]]: Kind of. {{spoiler|More accurately, an emergency mechanism to disassemble the ship to its constituent decks, each of which has its own life support system. The moths accidentally trigger this in the end.}}
* [[Shoot Out the Lock]]: An ignorant character tries to do this with an air lock.
* [[Stun Gun]]: The dazers. They can also be set to kill.
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