Hugo and Nebula Award winner Brian Aldiss was among the most distinguished British science fiction writers of recent decades. Named an SFWA Grand Master and inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame, he was also the recipient of the OBE for services to literature.

Curiosity was discouraged in the Greene tribe, whose members lived out their lives in the crowded spaces of Quarters, cutting back the encroaching vegetation. As to what was beyond their home—that was forgotten. Roy Complain decides to find out, and with the renegade priest Marapper he sets out into uncharted territory, where their discoveries turn their universe upside down. Originally published in Britain in 1958—and a year later as Starship in the United States—this is Brian Aldiss's debut novel.