I've quite enjoyed B. W. Aldiss' debut sci-fi novel Nonstop and would like to contribute to its trope page.
Unfortunately I only read the Czech translation so I've no information on how some features are called in the original English release. Care to help me?
I'm looking for the names of:
How the "native" inhabitants (maybe dizziers?) of the ship in general are called by Earthlings - the reasoning behind it is that they move so fast it makes the earthlings dizzy just by watching it.
In return how the "native" inhabitants of the ship call the intruding Earthlings that try to impose themselves as "natives". Intruders? Trespessers? Interlopers? Or impostors? It's easy to translate back but I need the canon name.
Since the "natives" live four times faster their day lasts only 6 hours. They call it perhaps "a shift"? You know, how the time at your workplace between clocking-in and out of work is called. Again I need the in-universe canon.
The name of the wilderness part of the ship.
The name of the front part of the ship where the more civilized tribe lives. Again it can be "prow" or "foredeck" or whatever - I need the canon name.
The disease that caused the original crew to go nearly extinct and subsequently mutate into essentially what are the "natives" of the ship now. Is is the "9-day fever" or "9-day flu" or "9-day plague"? I have no idea.
Maybe some other stuff will come up later.
Edited by sohibil on Jul 27th 2021 at 10:23:13 AM
Humankind is like a train. No matter how powerful the locomotive is, it can only travel as fast as its slowest car allows it to.
I've quite enjoyed B. W. Aldiss' debut sci-fi novel Nonstop and would like to contribute to its trope page.
Unfortunately I only read the Czech translation so I've no information on how some features are called in the original English release. Care to help me?
I'm looking for the names of:
Maybe some other stuff will come up later.
Edited by sohibil on Jul 27th 2021 at 10:23:13 AM
Humankind is like a train. No matter how powerful the locomotive is, it can only travel as fast as its slowest car allows it to.