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sohibil pragmatic scientist from the Lab Since: Dec, 2020 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
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#1: Jul 27th 2021 at 1:22:16 AM

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

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