Norstrilia: Cordwainer Smith (S.F. MASTERWORKS) - Softcover

Smith, Cordwainer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1473212537 ISBN 13: 9781473212534

Publisher: Gateway, 2016

Synopsis

Rod McBan 151st farms 'stroon', the immortality drug, and is the last scion of one of the oldest and most honourable families on Norstrilia, only source of stroon. But he's also a telepathic cripple and faces the ever-present risk of being culled under the government's draconian population laws.

To protect himself, he uses his not-strictly-legal computer to play the market and amass an unimaginable fortune. But after he survives an assassination attempt, McBan discovers that having enough money to literally buy the Earth is no good if you're too dead to spend it . . .

About this title

Book Description:

From the author of the highly acclaimed THE REDISCOVERY OF MAN

About the Author:

Cordwainer Smith (1913 - 1966) Cordwainer Smith was the most famous pen name of US foreign policy adviser Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger. Born in Milwaukee in 1913, his godfather was the Chinese revolutionary and political leader, Sun Yat-sen - the result of his political activist father's close ties with leaders of the Chinese revolution. Smith held a PhD in Political Science from Johns Hopkins, served in the US military during the Second World War and acted as an adviser to President Kennedy. Although he only published one novel, Norstrilia, Smith is well regarded for his short fiction, the majority of which is set in his future history of the Instrumentality of Mankind.

About this edition

• Publisher: Gateway
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1473212537
• ISBN 13: 9781473212534
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288