ame's author, stated that the original inspiration for the game was Brian Aldiss

's classic science fiction novel Non-Stop (aka Starship, 1958). In the British R
PG magazine White Dwarf, issue 1, Ian Livingstone wrote a review of the game and
published his own additional rules for playing Metamorphosis Alpha on Aldiss's
ship. However, it is often suggested that the game was inspired by Robert A. Hei
nlein's 1941 novel Orphans of the Sky.[2][3] James M. Ward has stated that he wa
s not familiar with the 1973 Canadian TV series The Starlost, a show with a simi
lar concept, and that Metamorphosis Alpha is not based upon that series.[4]
Ownership and rights[edit]