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The Rediscovery of Man
Cordwainer Smith
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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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Praise for The Rediscovery of Man
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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.
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