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Under Old Earth and Other Explorations
| Author: | Cordwainer Smith |
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Panther Books, Ltd., 1970 |
| Series: | The Instrumentality of Mankind |
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| Book Type: | Collection |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
A cosmos of beauty and terror on the far side of time
The universe you will explore in these stories by a famous science fiction author is surely one of the most colourful and weird ever conceived.
Untold millennia in the future, a thousand planets throughout the galaxy acknowledge one ruler – the Instrumentality of Mankind. Giant planoforming ships travel the hazardous spaceways. Men and women genetically 'built' from animals do civilization's labour – and plot in secret, planning revolution. But the hell-planet Shayol with its bizarre torments awaits those who rebel against the dictatorial yoke of the Instrumentality...
Table of Contents
- Introduction - essay by Anthony Cheetham
- The Game of Rat and Dragon (1955) - short story
- On the Sand Planet (1965) - novelette
- Under Old Earth (1966) - novelette
- Alpha Ralpha Boulevard (1961) - novelette
- The Ballard of Lost C'Mell (1962) - novelette
- The Crime and the Glory of Commander Suzdal (1964) - short story
- A Planet Named Shayol (1961) - novelette
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