Starship Author:Brian W. Aldiss Mankind has reached for the stars--but found its destiny in primitive savagery. In the savage world of the Greene tribe, losing a woman was unforgivable, and Roy had lost his while hunting in the jungle call "the ponics." Disgraced, isolated, he joined the disreputable priest Marapper on a forbidden expedition through Deadways to find the lege... more »ndary land of Forwards. They were to meet mutants, and giants, regimented rats and telepathic rabbits, and the fabled Outsiders. Finally they would confront a secret kept hidden for 23 generations--a secret whose discovery would reveal their origins and destiny even as it destroyed their world!« less