The Rediscovery of Man
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- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2010
Summary
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780575094246 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0575094249 |
| Author: | Cordwainer Smith |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Gollancz |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2010 |
| Weight: | 316g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 26mm |
| Series: | S.F. Masterworks |
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Read this. Cordwainer Smith is timeless. - Terry Pratchett.
Smith’s instrumentality is the most complex and lyrical of all future histories, redolent with future antiquity. It is a history of a mankind transformed, oddly convincingly, by a relentless series of changes - war, genetic engineering, interstellar travel, immortality - and Smith’s remarkable, rich prose gives shivery hints of a darkly imagined universe extending far beyond the boundaries of the stories. Lush, strange, unique, a treasure. - Stephen Baxter.About The Author
Cordwainer Smith
Cordwainer Smith (1913-66) was the pseudonym used by American author Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger for his SF works.
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