A huge spaceship travels through space without a captain and purpose. Its passengers, races hostile to each other, roam its vast corridors, which are covered by dense jungles with strange vegetation and unknown animals. Shreds of knowledge support them and intractable questions plague them: old myths about Mother Earth, the purpose of the ship’s existence, its limits, its destination. Even mutant animals struggle, with their poor half-animal, half-human minds, to discover the truth.
However, hidden somewhere inside the giant ship is the control room: from there one could return it, after countless years, to its starting point or drive it to its destination. A thrilling book by Brian Aldiss that never ceases to captivate every reader, encapsulating the whole adventure of man and his anxiety towards the unknown, in a journey with no end and a forgotten beginning.
