Overview
The best short fiction of acclaimed SF author Cordwainer Smith.
Welcome to the strangest, most distinctive future ever imagined by a science fiction writer. An interstellar empire ruled by the mysterious Lords of the Instrumentality, whose access to the drug stroon from the planet Norstrilia confers on them virtual immortality. A world in which wealthy and leisured humanity is served by the underpeople, genetically engineered animals turned into the semblance of people. A world in which the great ships which sail between the stars are eventually supplanted by the mysterious, instantaneous technique of planoforming. A world of wonder and myth, and extraordinary imagination.
- | Author: Cordwainer Smith
- | Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
- | Publication Date: Mar 29, 2010
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9780575094246
- | ISBN-10: 0575094249
