The Rediscovery of Man
Welcome to the strangest, most distinctive future ever imagined by a science fiction writer. An insterstellar 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...
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Welcome to the strangest, most distinctive future ever imagined by a science fiction writer. An insterstellar 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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781857988192 (1857988191)
Publish date: May 13th 1999
Publisher: Gollancz
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
Series: Instrumentality of Mankind
Cordwainer Smith is a most unusual story writer whose execution and creativity in ideas usually outshone the way they were ended. One usually expects a good, decisive ending to a SF short story but such was the sheer strangeness of his ideas, his poetical prose style and varied range of narrative te...
When I was in high school I would occasionally accompany my older brother to the college he attended and spend the day browsing the stacks of the university library. One day I came across a book titled "You Will Never Be the Same" by Cordwainer Smith. I could not pass up that title or author name....
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