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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... read more
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That golden shape on the golden steps shook and fluttered like a bird gone mad—like a bird imbued with an intellect and a soul, and, nevertheless, driven mad by ecstasies and terrors beyond human understanding—ecstasies drawn momentarily down into reality by the consummation of superlative art.
Table of Contents edit
Stories of the Instrumentality of Mankind:
"No, No, Not Rogov!"
"War No. 81-Q" (rewritten version)
"Mark Elf"
"The Queen of the Afternoon"
"Scanners Live in Vain"
"The Lady Who Sailed The Soul"
"When the People Fell"
"Think Blue, Count Two"
"The Colonel Came Back from the Nothing-at-All"
"The Game of Rat and Dragon"
"The Burning of the Brain"
"From Gustible's Planet"
"Himself in Anachron"
"The Crime and the Glory of Commander Suzdal"
"Golden the Ship Was-Oh! Oh! Oh!"
"The Dead Lady of Clown Town"
"Under Old Earth"
"Drunkboat"
"Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons"
"Alpha Ralpha Boulevard"
"The Ballad of Lost C'mell"
"A Planet Named Shayol"
"On the Gem Planet"
"On the Storm Planet"
"On the Sand Planet"
"Three to a Given Star"
"Down to a Sunless Sea"
Other Stories:
"War No. 81-Q" (original version)
"Western Science Is So Wonderful"
"Nancy"
"The Fife of Bodidharma"
"Angerhelm"
"The Good Friends"
Series & Lists edit
This is book 10 of 70 in Science Fiction Masterworks. (edition-based publisher list)
Preceded by Gateway, and followed by Last and First Men (SF Masterworks) (Sf Masterworks 11).
This book is in Significant Speculative Fiction (Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror). (community list)
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- Cordwainer Smith (Author)
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Original Language: English
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Country: United States of America
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ISBN: 9780575094246
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- Dewey: 813.54
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