by Cordwainer Smith (Author)
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.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 400
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Gollancz
Published: 13 May 1999
ISBN 10: 1857988191
ISBN 13: 9781857988192
Book Overview: * #10 in the Millennium SF Masterworks series, a library of the finest science fiction ever written * '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
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