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Synopsis

A sweeping saga of the centuries to come, from the new dark age that followed a global war, to the new civilization that arose from the ashes to colonize the stars. At first, the colonists use ships with gigantic sails, cruising on the waves of starlight, their captains having to become something part human and part machine; then later moving by planoforming ships which travel faster than light, but must defend themselves against the malevolent, mind-devouring creatures lurking in the dark between the stars.

Then came the reign of the all-powerful Lords of the Instrumentality, who ruled Earth and its colony worlds with ruthless benevolence, suffocating the human spirit for millennia--until the time of the Rediscovery of Man, when the strange, lost concept of freedom was reborn....

An extraordinary vision of a future unique in science fiction, praised by readers, critics, and major writers in the field.

Table of Contents:

• A Planet Named Shayol - [The Instrumentality of Mankind] - (1961) - novelette
• Angerhelm - (1959) - short story
• Down to a Sunless Sea - [The Instrumentality of Mankind] - (1975) - novelette by Genevieve Linebarger and Cordwainer Smith [as]
• Drunkboat - [The Instrumentality of Mankind] - (1963) - novelette
• From Gustible's Planet - [The Instrumentality of Mankind] - (1962) - short story
• Golden the Ship Was--Oh! Oh! Oh! - [The Instrumentality of Mankind] - (1959) - short story by Genevieve Linebarger and Cordwainer Smith (variant of Golden the Ship Was -- Oh! Oh! Oh!) [as]
• Himself in Anachron - [The Instrumentality of Mankind] - (1993) - short story by Genevieve Linebarger and Cordwainer Smith
• Mark Elf - [The Instrumentality of Mankind] - (1957) - short story
• Nancy - (1959) - short story
• No, No, Not Rogov! - [The Instrumentality of Mankind] - (1959) - short story
• On the Gem Planet - [Casher O'Neill] - (1963) - novelette
• On the Sand Planet - [Casher O'Neill] - (1965) - novelette
• On the Storm Planet - [Casher O'Neill] - (1965) - novella
• Scanners Live in Vain - [The Instrumentality of Mankind] - (1950) - novelette
• The Burning of the Brain - [The Instrumentality of Mankind] - (1958) - short story
• The Colonel Came Back from the Nothing-at-All - [The Instrumentality of Mankind] - (1979) - short story
• The Crime and the Glory of Commander Suzdal - [The Instrumentality of Mankind] - (1964) - short story
• The Fife of Bodidharma - (1959) - short story
• The Game of Rat and Dragon - [The Instrumentality of Mankind] - (1955) - short story
• The Good Friends - (1963) - short story
• The Lady Who Sailed the Soul - [The Instrumentality of Mankind] - (1960) - novelette by Genevieve Linebarger and Cordwainer Smith [as]
• The Queen of the Afternoon - [The Instrumentality of Mankind] - (1978) - novelette
• Think Blue, Count Two - [The Instrumentality of Mankind] - (1963) - novelette
• Three to a Given Star - [Casher O'Neill] - (1965) - novelette
• Introduction (When the People Fell) - (2007) - essay by Frederik Pohl
• War No. 81-Q - [The Instrumentality of Mankind] - (1928) - short story
• War No. 81-Q (rewritten version) - [The Instrumentality of Mankind] - (1993) - short story
• Western Science Is So Wonderful - (1958) - short story
• When the People Fell - [The Instrumentality of Mankind] - (1959) - short story

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